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Words Showing Up Gibberish For Resume PDF

Explorer ,
Sep 28, 2021 Sep 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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Community Expert ,
Sep 28, 2021 Sep 28, 2021

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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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Explorer ,
Sep 28, 2021 Sep 28, 2021

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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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Adobe Employee ,
Sep 28, 2021 Sep 28, 2021

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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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Sep 28, 2021 Sep 28, 2021

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

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Follow what Bevi said. She's correct.

 

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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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