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Hi LizaL
I am sorry, but I have a question about adobe reader not photoshop and I think you are fine at too.
I am using Adobe reader 7. When I reach some pages in a mathematical document, this message pops up: “Cannot extract the embedded font ‘JOBHJJ+CMTI10'. Some characters may not display or print correctly.”
And the rest of the document displays incorrectly.
What's the matter and how could be solved?
Thanks in advance
Hi Sobhi,
I've never had anything like this happen, but it sounds to me like the document you're reading has fonts in it that didn't port over from the original, to the PDF. In other words, for some reason, in the original document, the fonts didn't save correctly when the author made the document into a PDF.
When a PDF is created, fonts are handled in such a way that everyone will be able to read them, regardless of whether they actually have the PDF's fonts on their computers. The saving process from document to PDF makes sure that the fonts are extracted when people open the PDF. The whole idea of PDFs is to make documents that can be read by any platform, on any computer, and it won't matter whether the reader has the fonts or not.
This process isn't always foolproof, though, and neither are the methods by which PDFs are created. So something could have messed up when the PDF was generated, and the fonts didn't embed correctly.
Or, it could be that your version of Acrobat Reader isn't reading the PDf correctly, for some reason.
If it's the first case scenario, there's nothing you can do, unless you can go back to the author of the document and ask them to regenerate the PDF, and see if that makes it readable. If you're able to, tell them you're having a font problem, so they'll know to make any necessary adjustments in that area when they generate the PDF.
If that doesn't work, you can always try uninstalling and reinstalling Acrobat Reader.
Go here for more information on troubleshooting PDFs:
http://www.adobe.com/support/products/acrreader.html
Hope this helps!
Lisa
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LizaL
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I've used Photoshop since the release of version 2. I taught college commercial art and graphic design for 10 years, and within that realm, taught Photoshop at every level, and with each successive product upgrade. My experience with Photoshop is thus extensive and well-rounded, from photo retouching to color adjustment to incorporating Photoshop and ImageReady into Web design. I am primarily a Mac user (since 1985), but am also PC-savvy.
Experience
I've been a graphic designer for 22 years, was a national magazine art director, a designer for the Department of Defense, a college art instructor, and have my own freelance Web and graphic design business, LittleWorks (www.little-works.com). I've also worked for several printing companies, in both prepress and art.
Awards and Honors
PICA award (Printing Industry of the Carolinas Award for the design of a media kit that accompanied a magazine I was art directing at the time)
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