BTW, the last file processed will remain open, you can close that without any problems.Īll that’s left to do is to merge the files back into a single PDF file. Once done, you should be able to verify that the missing characters are back again. This will now process all files by opening them and saving them with the settings we have specified. Don’t worry about the order in which the files are listed, the order in which the files are processed does not matter. Click on the “Add Files” button, browse to the directory where you saved your individual pages, and select all of them. If you created a blank document on a Mac, that document will not be listed – unless you saved it since creating it). If there is anything listed in “Files to be processed:”, remove any existing entry (The active document will be listed if it’s a document that was already saved to disk. This will allow you to select all documents to process. On the “Action Wizard” panel click on the new Action to start it. Now we can process all the individual pages we converted the original document to. Click “OK” again and then save the newly created Action under a meaningful name (e.g.
On the “PDF Optimizer” dialog select to retain the current PDF version (“Make compatible with”), unselect all categories but the “Fonts” category and select to “Subset all embedded fonts”:Ĭlick on the “OK” button and provide a name for the just created PDF Optimizer configuration (e.g. The next dialog looks like the PDF Optimizer dialog that pops up when you select File>Save as Other>Optimized PDF, so if you want to do this step manually, the same settings apply. Select to run the “PDF Optimizer” and click on the associated “Settings” button: This will display the “Output Options” dialog.
To specify the save options, click on “Specify Settings”: Now either double-click on Save, or use the “+” button in the middle of the dialog to move it to the right side. On the “Action Wizard” dialog, expand the “Save&Export” section and select the “Save” step. To create an Action, select Tools>Action Wizard>Create New Action… (on the Mac, you will have to open a document to have access to this function – I always use Cmd-Shift-T to create a blank document). We could do this manually for each file (and if you only have two pages, that may actually be the faster method), but for many pages, it’s easier to have an Action that takes care of that. Now that we have individual pages, we can fix the font problems. When you check the output files corresponding to pages with missing characters, you will notice that the characters are still missing. That will make it easier to merge these files again, once we are done. On the split dialog, select to split after every page:Ĭlick on the “Output Options” and select to save the split pages in a separate directory. This can be done using Tools>Pages>Split: The first thing we need to do is to split the document into it’s individual pages. I assume you have the merge result, so some characters will be missing: So much for the workaround I had suggested in the past…Īfter a few more unsuccessful attempts, I ended up with a process that works – at least for the files that I had access to. I unselected all of them with the exception of “Fonts”, and then selected to un-embed all fonts. When you bring up the optimizer, you can configure different categories. You can un-embed fonts using the PDF Optimizer (File>Save as Other>Optimized PDF…) in Adobe Acrobat XI Pro (unfortunately, the ‘Standard’ version does not have this feature). I’ve always suggested to un-embed fonts, so that was the first thing I tried. Once I had access to a file that had missing characters, I tried a number of different things.
I finally struck gold and received a couple of files that show this problem. I’ve asked for sample files for many years, but never got anything useful. I’ve never seen this problem first hand, and therefore was not able to find a workaround that would fix it. Have you ever tried to merge a few files and ended up with missing characters on some of your pages in the resulting PDF file? Here is a description of one of these instances – as a question posted on :
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