PDF generated with unreadable characters for Googlebot crawling (and for copy-pasting)

[Mark.Colangelo]

Source: InDesign 2022 documents

Output: PDF (any format) with Embedded Fonts (western alphabets)

Problem: On screen and print the PDF appears OK, when crawled by Googlebot the text is a bounch of "garbage" unreadable charaters.

Note to readers: Please do not suggest the "Copy-With-Formatting" option as solution. I'm talking of Google crawling and search indexing in this post.

Link to PDF as example.

[Bernd Alheit]

Try the forum for InDesign.

[Mark.Colangelo]

Did you even try to look at the PDF example?

(InDesign works fine, it seems to me a "fonts-encoding" problem.

[Bernd Alheit]

You have created the PDF file in InDesign. May be a issue of the export settings in InDesign.

[Test Screen Name]

Who encodes the fonts? Yes, InDesign! How can it be anything other than InDesign or Google? Acrobat isn't involved in making the file - that's Indesign. Acrobat isn't involved in spidering the file - that's Google. There may be many faults in Acrobat or Reader, but this can't be one of them.