Cannot extract the embedded font 'F2'. Some characters may not display or print correctly.

I had similar problem. I just deleted the embedded font. In my Acrobat X, click Save As, Optimized PDF, click Fonts Tab, then unembedd fonts. Older versions of Acrobat work the same way (did a quick search on Google).

In Acrobat 6 for instance:

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr6optimize.html

Just to let you know, for anyone else with this problem. I had this problem occur on a MAC when you tried to do save to PDF in excel. This was all happening at the point of generation of the PDF in my case.

The fix was to delete ALL the microsoft preferences, but perahps only the font cache needed to be deleted.

I deleted the following areas from the local users userprofile on the mac. On windows, I would probably log in as a differnet user to try to see if the problem just exsists for one particular user.

Here are the sections I deleted:

Library/caches/metadata/Microsoft*

Username/library/preferences/com.microsoft* ( and anyhting with microsoft in it)

I did leave the entourage settings though.

hope it helps someone with a similar issue.

I had this issue.

I could view the PDF file locally on my pc in version 9.

I then used an FTP process to copy the PDF file to a UNIX server.

I then opened the file within PeopleSoft and got this error:

cannot extract the embedded font 'AXHKRB+ArialMT-Identity-H'
some characters may not display of print correctly.

I then used a different FTP process with a BINARY option.

I was then able to open the file with no issues.

Prior to updating to version 9.3.3 I was able to view documents with Japanese fonts.

After updating, I get the error message when I open some of the same previous documents.

"Cannot extract the embedded font 'ILOKCH+MS-PMincho'. Some characters may not display or print correctly"

It seems it can open some documents which have Japanese fonts but not others.

I uninstalled and reinstalled the Japanese font pack and still get the same error message.

Im having same problem. All previous pdf files I used to be able to view now produce the cannot extract the embedded font error. I am unable to view pdf files. I was using 9.3 then removed it for 8 and still nothing. Windows 7 64bit.

Problem still occurs with Reader 9.3.3.  Message read: “Cannot extract the embedded font OGCGEA+Calibri-italic.  Some characters may not display or print correctly”.

Reinstalling Reader does not help.

Anyone with fresh ideas?

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