PDFs garbled

Why do all my pdfs open up as garbled code instead of language? Can anything be done about this?

Under Edit>Preferences>Language
Make sure English is selected for the Application language
Try toggling between the selections for default font... and be sure that Ligautres, Hindi Digits and Enable Writing Direction Switching are ALL unchecked.

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Thanks for reproting this issue.
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Heya.
I have a user who is creating a PDF essentially compiled from inserting word documents into the position she wants inside of the PDF.
The problem is that sometimes this leads to missing or garbled text. For example, 6-8.1 is displayed as 6- .1. Which is just plain weird.
Other times, the text looks garbled or uneven. She turned off her PC but I took screenshots of both of these scenarios. I fear that I am not going to be able to retroactively fix the corruption in this document for her.
She says she's using very standard fonts. Like Arial. I asked if she could locate the original Word document that produced the garbled text, just for a sanity check. The problem is that her co-worker may have been the only one with that particular word document (there are probably hundreds which compile this PDF...) and IF she has it, she might not be able to locate it on her PC TO check what the original text is. Yikes.
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She states that she can manually fix the document but after a while it gets corrupted again? But I haven't observed that and she might have just fed me that to amplify the problem.
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Here are the two instances of corruption we have come across.
http://imgur.com/nPztMYm
http://imgur.com/wHM12e2
Edit: A LITTLE MORE INFO. I am able to select the corrupted text, paste it into Notepad with all the characters intact. So the characters are THERE. they are just not being displayed correctly.
Edit: They also do not print correctly. The page prints with characters missing, and she wants to print this document, so that is going to be an issue.

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Broken PDF
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I doubt you could fix this. Generally a "garbled" file is considered unusable for copying, and that's that. If a PDF uses random mappings instead of standard ones it looks fine on screen, but text extraction is impossible.
Short of converting every page to bitmap and OCRing again.

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I am facing problem with polish characters while converting spool to pdf in smartform. I have configured the new printer with device type I2SWIN with respective codepage. The preview of pdf in SAP is fine but when it is sent as an attachment in email or converted through program RSTXPDFT4, the polish characters are garbled.
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This issue has puzzled me for some time. I've been creating charts in Excel (2008, and now 2011) and pasting them into my Illustrator document (CS5 on a Mac). Sometimes everything pastes perfectly, while other times all or some of the labels, titles, etc. are garbled.
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I realize this issue doesn't involve Illustrator alone, but I figure I have a better chance on these forums than on some Excel forum. If anyone has any ideas to try I would be very happy to hear them!
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It's mid-2013 here, this is the first result on Google for this stupid problem. The last comment basically focused on how there are no known solutions to this yet.
ADOBE: I WANT MY PDFs TO OPEN IN ILLUSTRATOR WITHOUT HAVING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WENT WRONG IN THE ORIGINAL WORD DOC OR WHATEVER WAS USED TO OPEN THEM. IF PREVIEW CAN SEE THE FILE AS IT SHOULD BE SEEN, THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE THIS DOWN.
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Hello,
I'm trying to find an answer as to why pdf files generated
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I can post screenshots or example online if required.
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> I'm trying to find an answer as to why pdf files
generated from Freehand (via
> Adobe PDF printer driver) don't include text that can be
copied/exported etc.
>
> The text is visible, and can be selected normally in
Acrobat with the select
> text tool. However, cut-and-paste copied text into any
other program doesn't
> work -- the text is no longer normally encoded "text" --
but (at least on Win
> XP Pro) garbled symbols, lines and returns.
> OS: Win XP Pro SP2. FH MXa. Acrobat 7.0.8 Pro. I've
tried googling for
> results, but nothing specific comes up. Some discussion
on "Gen_" named fonts,
> but no fix.
>
> This problem has been around for many years, but now is
something I'd prefer
> to resolve as many pdf files I'm creating are ending up
online and need to be
> indexed and searchable. I've been using FH since v5.5,
but cannot remember in
> earlier days if this was an issue!
I've made pdf files using Acrobat about from version 7 or 8
(?) As memory serves the Gen-font problem has always been there.
This has also caused problems in eps export.
There has probaly been some remotely sane reason for changing
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For the files that are getting garbled in this process, try printing those documents to the Adobe PDF printer to 'refry' them. You'll lose your bookmarks, but the documents may combine without issue.
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1. In Word, click on the Adobe PDF tab
2. click "change conversion settings"
3. click on Settings tab (may be default tab)
4. put a check in the box that says "PDF/A-1a; 2005 compliant file"
5. click ok
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7. inserted converted PDF file into another PDF
I confirmed that my file now converts properly and there is no garbled text!
I do not know what "PDF/A-1a; 2005 compliant file" is, but it worked!

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