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HTML to PDF Not working in Acrobat 9

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2009-03-17 09:31:16
v-dawalt
Registered: Mar 17 2009
Posts: 4
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Hello,

Has anyone had an issue where when combining html files into one pdf, all of the text becomes kanji (Japanese, Chinese, Korean) characters?

I have shipping slips that are in html format. What I would do in Acrobat 8 was simply combine maybe 80 shipping slips and acrobat 8 would convert them to PDF and I'd print it in one shot with no problem.

Now in Acrobat 9, I followed the same process but every page loses its formatting and all of the english arial font has just become run on lines of Japanese text.

Thanks in Advance for any help.

-David

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.1, Windows
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2009-03-18 00:55:36
#1
abhigyan
Expert
Registered: Nov 29 2007
Posts: 223
Does the PDF look correct if you simply drag and drop one of those html files in Acrobat?
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2009-03-18 08:56:01
#2
v-dawalt
Registered: Mar 17 2009
Posts: 4
Sadly, No. It produces the exact same result.
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2009-03-19 03:48:04
#3
abhigyan
Expert
Registered: Nov 29 2007
Posts: 223
That means that we can leave combine out of this.

One thing that can go wrong is the encoding of your HTML and what Acrobat expects/detects it to be. Do you know the encoding of your HTML (it's usually in the HTML header? If it is not present in the file, Acrobat will assume it to be Roman (Windows)

The setting Acrobat uses can be seen/changed in File>Create PDF>From Web page>Settings>File type HTML (Settings)->Input Encoding>Default Encoding
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2009-03-19 09:19:34
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v-dawalt
Registered: Mar 17 2009
Posts: 4
That did the trick. I experimented with it a bit and it seems to like the Unicode (UTF-8) Setting best. Now it works perfectly! Thanks for your help with troubleshooting!
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2009-04-02 21:56:37
#5
fchivu
Registered: Jul 10 2007
Posts: 4
You can use the html to pdf converter from http://www.winnovative-software.com. You convert multiple html sources to the same pdf.
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