My text becomes unidentifiable squares after so called "sorting fonts" process. And this happens every time I trynna work with the document.

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I recently downloaded and purchased an Adobe Acrobat subscription for work, but so far I haven't been able to do anything because the file I'm working with is constantly being in a process of "sorting fonts." The file is 140 pages long, a PDF. It contains many images, tables, and elements, and the original text itself is in English, but I'm using DeepL Translator to translate it into Russian and then work with that. P.S I use Arrial font.

Some of the translations aren't very good linguistically, which is why I need a convenient PDF editor. I've searched everywhere for information on my case, but I've seen practically no similar issues, only on the website with the Russian Adobe forum, but no one has responded there. So I'm writing here hoping for a quick response! Thanks.

P.P.S on the photos - screenshot of the “squares” and Preflight Results

Randy Hagan · Answer

Navigate your way to the PDF in your File Manager/File Explorer window, then right-click on it. This opens the flyaway menu. Click on the Open With... command in that flyaway menu, and lets you open it in other programs. Choose your preferred web browser and try to open the file there.

If the file opens fine, it could be the Acrobat application. If your web browser can’t open it cleanly, it’s likely your PDF file.

Let us know what results you get, and we can help you toward the best solution to your issues.

Randy

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