Optimizing PDFs results in loss of embedded numbers
Hello,
My organization is attempting to publish a document on the web that was built in InDesign CS3. The problem we are having is that when we optimize the PDF in Acrobat Professional, the document has vertical boxes with x's in them (x-boxes?) where numbers should be. Worse yet, the placement is random, and it's not for certain numbers (not all zero's but not all three's for example).
We've also noticed that when the text is coppied into Word's notepad, all of the original numbers appear in the text.
Any ideas as to what this is? This only appears to be happening with the Minion Pro font we use as text - all of our headlines in Helvetica are fine.
Another interesting development: When printing documents from InDesign to PDF, and then using PDF Optimizer in Acrobat, we are not getting the boxes embedded in the Minion Pro. If we Export the book to PDF (to retain bookmarks and hyperlinks), and then optimize, we see the boxes. However, different users are encountering different problems now - the Production manager has missing letters and numbers, while my workstation only produces missing numbers.
We may have to re-insert bookmarks automatically in a 'printed' PDF document if we can not resolve the export/optimization problem we are encountering.
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