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An accountant is unable to open a legible copy of a PDF they received from a client.

It should have been some sort of financial report, and looks it it's formatted properly (tables of transaction dates, columns and headings etc) but the characters are all just dots.

She gets an error "Cannot find or create the font 'BestReporting70,Bold'.  Some characters may not display or print correctly.

OK, so that's fairly obvious to me as IT; there's a special font pack being used in the PDF, and it's missing.  Some googling leads me to the software vendor and a downloadable font pack installer.  Did that, still can't read the PDF.

Ran a Repair install of Acrobat 8.  Still can't read the PDF.

What should I be trying next?


Rachel Schlueter

Try restarting for the changes to take effect?
I couldn't help myself

Guess you must have downloaded this?

http://cdn.bestsoftware.com/ftp/FASProduct/FASMisc/FASFontsPack.zip

its on the support forum for adobe located

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/393043

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Craig M
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Jun 14, 2010 at 12:22 UTC

Try using FoxIt PDF reader.

Rachel Schlueter

Try restarting for the changes to take effect?
I couldn't help myself

Guess you must have downloaded this?

http://cdn.bestsoftware.com/ftp/FASProduct/FASMisc/FASFontsPack.zip

its on the support forum for adobe located

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/393043

momurda

copy the text and try to paste it into word, change the font to times new roman see if that works.  If not then the sender needs to resend it properly.

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Jun 14, 2010 at 13:00 UTC

Print > Scan > resave where he can open it.

lose ocr but it will work...

Tell client to quit using odd ball fonts ...

foxitreader is the other good solution...

Bartleby

It's readable in Foxit, but they need to mark it up in Acrobat, so that's not the final fix.

That FAS Fonts Pack is what I installed (and restarted), but still no-go.

The 'dots' do copy/paste into Word, but since that loses all the column/row formatting, it's useless as a financial report.

I guess I'm going to have to print a hard copy from Foxit and then re-scan the dead trees into Acrobat.  Sigh.

Craig M
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Jun 14, 2010 at 13:10 UTC

See if you can (in FoxIT) print to the Adobe PDF printer and mark up the new copy.

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Craig M wrote:

See if you can (in FoxIT) print to the Adobe PDF printer and mark up the new copy.

If that doesn't work, try Nuance's PDF 6 Converter Enterprise app. We use that and it rawks.

John2851

Craig M wrote:

See if you can (in FoxIT) print to the Adobe PDF printer and mark up the new copy.

Ditto...Also, Foxit does offer mark up tools (Annotation for Business Usage) for very reasonable cost...Bought a personal copy a while back and love it...

Bartleby

Turns out that the font package just required SIX restarts to apply itself properly and become functional.  Sigh.

But thatnks to everyone for the recommendations for alternative PDF creators/markup tools - it'll save me some cash on the personal side.

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