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rubenJr005
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September 28, 2021
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Words Showing Up Gibberish For Resume PDF

  • September 28, 2021
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hello im applying for jobs and I created my resume on a pdf using acrobat. And im not sure if the pdf is showing up corrupt for everyone else. But when I view the pdf on the browser and when I hit space bar on my mac to view the pdf the words are showing up as Gibbershish but when i open the pdf in acrobat it looks fine. 

 

Please let me know if my pdf is showing up corrupt for you as well and if so please let me know how i can fix this quickly. Thank you so much. 

 

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Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
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September 28, 2021

This is caused when the fonts are not embedded into the PDF when you export it.

2 reasons why this happens:

 

  1. The option to embed all fonts (subsetted) wasn't checked when the PDF was made. Or
     
  2. The fonts you used are not licensed to be embedded. They are protected, or you didn't purchase the right license that allows them to be embedded into PDFs.

 

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    Amal.
    Community Manager
    Amal.Community Manager
    Community Manager
    September 28, 2021

    Hi Ruben

     

    Hope you are doing well and sorry for the trouble. As described the PDF shows correctly when opened with Adobe Acrobat DC but shown gibberish when opened in a web browser

     

    Web browsers use their own PDF mechanism to render and display the PDF file and they are not Adobe dependant. The ideal and recommended way is to download the PDF file to your computer locally and open it with Adobe Acrobat/Reader DC application.

     

    Hope this information will help

     

    Regards

    Amal

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    rubenJr005Author
    Inspiring
    September 28, 2021

    thanks but im using this pdf to apply for jobs so i need it to work correctly on browser and locally.

    gary_sc
    Community Expert
    gary_scCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 28, 2021

    Follow what Bevi said. She's correct.

     

      gary_sc
      Community Expert
      gary_scCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      September 28, 2021

      Yup, that's gibberish.

       

      EXACTLY how did you create the PDF?

       

      Do you have Acrobat Reader, Acrobat Standard, or Acrobat Pro?

       

      When you went to create this, did you select "Print to PDF…" or "Print to Adobe PDF…"

       

      What application did you use to create this?

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        rubenJr005Author
        Inspiring
        September 28, 2021

        Hello to be honest i downloaded a resume template and I used Acrobat to update it. Whats weird is i made 4 different resume's and this is the only version that came out that way. 

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