Converting from PDF to Word (or Frame, or anything)

[Art Campbell]

I think you're on the right track assuming a font is missing, but it
could also be that the language code was set incorrectly or was
corrupted.

In Acrobat, you should be able to select a text segment of the
rectangles and check its properties to see what font is missing, so
you could possibly add it.

When you convert, you're doing a SaveAs from Acrobat? Have you tried
saving as text to see if you can capture the missing characters as
something useful instead of trying to capture both text and
formatting?


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On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Stuart Rogers
<srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com> wrote:
> On 2013-Jul-02 1:53 PM, John Posada wrote:
>
> Hi, guys...
>
> I was given three PDF files that I need to edit and put into Frame. Two of
> the PDfs converted fine,
>
> The third PDF, when converted, alot of the text converts to squares. I
> assume it is because of a font that is not on my machine.
>
> It doesn't matter if I convert to Word, RTF, or XML. In fact, when I copy a
> piece of text to clipboard and paste into Notepad, I still get the squares.
>
> So...is there a way during conversion to map a particular font to another
> font? This is confidential stuff, so I can't let it out of my system.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> You could try printing the file to the Acrobat printer instance as an image
> (Advanced print properties) and then using either Acrobat or OneNote to
> perform OCR.  OneNote does that automatically when you add a file to a
> notebook.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Stuart Rogers
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