Why does editing tend to scramble up my text ?

Question

When editing Pictures and texts, it often happens, that I find parts of my texts messed up.

Letters missing and whitespace added randomly.
This is most annoying esp. when going unnoticed, as I sell ebooks.
When I reedit to correct the mixing up, I can never be certain, it does not mix up somewhere else.

Good advice would be appreciated.

Thank you

try67 · Accepted Answer

My advice is: Don't edit your PDF files.

They were not meant to be edited directly, and doing so is dangerous and tricky.

Go back to the original file format used to create the PDFs (Word, InDesign, FrameMaker, whatever), edit it there and then create a new PDF file from it.

conklinjohn · Answer

Double check how you receive your PDF files. I had a major issue most likely due to the PDFs I am trying to combine and I know some of them originate from international sources (our business partners) who haven't purchased the OS and the software apps they are using. I had to use the suggestion found here to help me get back on track: Topic is: "Scrambled Text when viewing PDF documents in Acrobat Standard XI"
URL is:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/scrambled-text-when-viewing-pdf-documents-in-acrobat-standard-xi/td-p/9521671?page=4

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