Preview and greek letters

I often get pdf's containing som greek letter-symbols (like sigma, tau, gamma etc).
But in some pdfs, the symbols have vanished. They show fine in Acrobat, but not in Safari, Preview or Quick Look.
I have a hunch that a common trait of the faulty pdf's is, that they are created with MS Word and maybe equation editor.
Is there any solution to this? (I tried doing a "save as" from Acrobat, which didn't work)

I think it is a problem with Word created PDFs. I'm having the same problem with some school PDFs as well that were created in Word.
Now it's doubly annoying since I can't use these files on my iPad. At least on the desktop, I can open them with Acrobat Reader.

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However, if I call the function from /Java/, it does work (I found out just now). But this doesn't explain why SQL Developer and Toad are being difficult, and I'm afraid that, because this function is part of a much bigger application, I'll run into the same problem.
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Hey quantum info,
Thank you for posting at Adobe forums. We would love to help you out.
Could you please let me know if you have tried converting other web pages to PDF and checked if the same issue persists.
How have you been trying to convert the web page to PDF?
Are you trying to convert to PDF directly via browsers or using "File > Create > PDF from Web Page" option in Acrobat.
Let me know more so that I can analyze where actually the issue persists.
Hope to hear from you.
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There was only one PDF reader at the time I when I made PDFs and that was Adobe Acrobat. It wasn't because there was no standard it was because as I state above. If the font was missing on a computer the font was read from the PDF. If the font is missing and not embed the reader will substitute a font. And you can't have font substituting in printing , mess things up really bad. One of the other reasons that a lot of these programs don't embed fonts is fonts are copyright. Netscape a few years back tried to come up with a way to embed fonts on a webpage. Didn't last long until the copyright laws suits started to come in for copyright infringements over the fonts being used.
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It is almost always a good idea to embed fonts, but Tom is absolutely correct that it is not necessary to embed fonts to display Greek. A well formatted PDF using standard fonts with Greek glyphs should display fine without anything embedded. At least, it does so on Mac.
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I failed to find any iPad font with Greek that I could unembed from PDF files. There seems to be some peculiar technical limitation in Adobe Acrobat for Helvetica, Times and Arial, where it always keeps part of the font embedded, no matter how much you tell Adobe Acrobat to unembed them.
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