Unable to merge PDF files.

Question

I have been running Acrobat 5 for a number of years and until recently have been able to merge and/or pages to existing PDF files with no problems; however I now get the following error statement when I try to merge or add pages to an existing file.  "These documents contain subset fonts that have the same name and cannot be merged"
     Does anyone know exactly what that means?  And how do I over ride that error.  What I have to do now, is take my original file, convert it to JPG files, then transfer it to Word and convert back to PDF.  It works but is a lot of extra work.  Help!!

Answer 1

Try67- Thanks- How do I embed full font subsets when creating files. The pdf files were created from Word and include captions for photos .
On the conversion. I convert the existing pdf files (pages of photos) to jpg and then import them to Word so I can add the new Word photo pages to them and then convert them back to PDF files. I know that sounds weird, but it works.
Previously I could just add the new pdf pages to existing pages, but not anymore. Fred