text changes to square charaters, how can I correct this?

Whaen I open a pdf sometimes the text changes to square box charaters, how can I correct this?


John Reyna


2 Answers

In Acrobat's/Reader's do you have the 'Use local fonts only' selected in the "Page Display' category?

If so uncheck that option. It would your local fonts to be used and not the font metrics used by the creator of the PDF. The square boxes indicate a missing glyph.

If that does not fix the issue, then the creator of the PDF did not embed the font metrics, and you need to contact that person about the issue.



George Kaiser   

Tried this but no luck. i'm using Adobe Pro 8.3.1 with mixed files - after looking into it further this version my just have a known problem. Would you know if a upgrade will correct this problem?


John Reyna   


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