Issue with Fonts when Printing to Adobe PDF Virtual Printer

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June 13, 2017
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I am having some problems when I try to print a PDF using the Adobe PDF Virtual Printer. My initial PDF has form fields and I am printing this PDF to the Adobe PDF Virtual Printer to get a flattened PDF to use. The output PDF looks correct when viewed but when I copy-and-paste certain text into Notepad, I see garbage/gibberish characters. I did read that this may have to do with the fonts used on the PDF.

Is there any way I can get the output PDF to print correctly by modifying some settings or should the initial PDF be created using a certain group of fonts?

Do the fonts that are Embedded vs Embedded Subset make a difference when printing to the Adobe PDF Virtual Printer?

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Fonts with a special Unicode map that allows text extraction will lose it if do this. You have set up a workflow inviting problems like this.

Bernd Alheit

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Use the Preflight Tool in Adobe Acrobat Pro to flatten form fields.

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We cannot use the Preflight Tool since many of our customers do not have Adobe Acrobat Pro. Also some integrating applications which our customers are using only have the ability to print a document.

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Printing PDF to PDF is much recommended on the internet but widely condemned by Adobe and people who know Acrobat. Often damaging, recommend you do not do this.

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