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While converting from pdf to word, can I modify fonts?

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2011-09-15 00:34:50
suresh_india
Registered: Jun 26 2011
Posts: 4

I have this pdf file which has a customized font, and when I am converting into word file, junk characters are replaced with these customized font.
 
I was under the assumption that while converting, if acrobat doesn’t recognize some font, it will display some warning message and ask me to pick some other font..or something like that, but it didn’t happen.
 
Is there any way I can replace these fonts to some word font?
 
Quick help is appreciated!

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 9.0, Windows
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2011-09-15 10:13:43
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daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Lori Kassuba posted the following to another forum:

If the fonts don't have unicode tables and they do not use a standard encoding for mapping the glyph indices to characters then you get garbage characters during copy/paste.
You can try using the PDF Fixup Profile "Embed Fonts" in the Preflight tool (Acrobat Pro 9.x or better only) to embed the font (if you are unable to reauthor the document).
However, the font does need to be installed on your system and license to allow embedding in order to do this.

(n.b. Your customized font may not provide proper encoding information.)


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