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Merging PDF's causing text spacing issue

2010-07-08 13:10:15

JBAR

Registered: Jul 8 2010

Posts: 5

Hello,

I tried searching the forum, but could not get a answer on this. When I convert a MS word document to the PDF the spacing between text is perfect. After combining a few PDF's created from various file types (Word, Excel) in a merged PDF, text spacing look incorrect. Example:

Converting MS-Word to PDF (perfect spacing):

The pdf looks like this

Merging PDF's created from various file types:

The p df look s li ke thi s

Any help would be greatly appreciated

2010-07-09 07:35:39

lkassuba

Registered: Jun 28 2007

Posts: 3636

When you combine PDF files that have the same font subset, Acrobat attempts to combine the font subsets.

When you create these PDFs, are all the fonts embedded? You can check under File > Properties > Font tab.

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.

2010-07-09 07:57:03

JBAR

Registered: Jul 8 2010

Posts: 5

lkassuba wrote:

When you combine PDF files that have the same font subset, Acrobat attempts to combine the font subsets.When you create these PDFs, are all the fonts embedded? You can check under File > Properties > Font tab.

I checked and some of the fonts are not embedded. Is there any easy way to correct this?

2010-07-10 20:17:43

daka630

Registered: Mar 1 2007

Posts: 1420

Hi JBAR,

Quote:

I checked and some of the fonts are not embedded. Is there any easy way to correct this?

Acrobat 9 Pro / Pro Extended have a Preflight that embeds fonts (provided the font(s) are available on the local machine being used.

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