Garbage Text in Optimized PDF

Question

I am downsampling a PDF from high-res to low-res and when I do I get garbage in some text. The high-res PFD is fine but when reduced/optimized some text gets distorted with overlapping letters and spaces within words and other garbage display areas. Is there a known fix for this? I've done this many times in the past with no issues, now suddenly I'm getting this poor outcome. Tips, tricks and advice welcome.

Amal. · Answer

Hi there

Hope you are doing well and sorry to hear that

Is this an issue with a particular PDF file or with all the PDFs? Please try with a different PDF file and check. If the file is stored on a shared network/drive please download it to your computer locally and then try again.

What is the workflow/steps you are doing to downsample the PDF file? A small video recording of the same would be very helpful.

What is the version of the Acrobat DC you are using? To check the version go to Help > About Acrobat and make sure you have the recent version 23.01.2017x installed. Go to Help > Check for updates and reboot the computer once.

Also, please go through the help page https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/optimizing-pdfs-acrobat-pro.html for more information about optimizing PDFs

Regards

Amal

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