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October 2, 2018
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CID+ Fonts

  • October 2, 2018
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Received a PDF from a client and when I open the thumbnail view I get a CIDFont+F1 contains bad/widths error. When I print it looks terrible. If I select those pages with the issue and export extract those out the exported extracted looks perfect and has no errors. This is all done on the same PC. Any suggestions on how to stop getting the CIDFont error or an explanation as to why the export extracting may have worked?

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Participant
April 1, 2025

the text font is "CALIBRI" It's the same.

Luke Jennings3
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 1, 2025

jorge_6250, Are you having the same issue as the original poster?

Participant
August 23, 2024

Look at the fonts list in the original and the extracted PDF. (File->Properties or CTRL-D --> fonts tab)

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Received a PDF from a client and when I open the thumbnail view I get a CIDFont+F1 contains bad/widths error. When I print it looks terrible. If I select those pages with the issue and export extract those out the exported extracted looks perfect and has no errors. This is all done on the same PC. Any suggestions on how to stop getting the CIDFont error or an explanation as to why the export extracting may have worked?

 

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By @VinGas65

 

S_S
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 21, 2025

Hi @aman_adv0110,

 

Hope you are doing well. Sorry for the trouble, and the delayed response.

 

If you are still looking for a solution, you might want to review the community thread which has an issue similar to yours: Solved: 'Font contains bad/Widths' and 'Cannot find/create... - Adobe Community - 6813729

 

Hope this helps.


-Souvik

Participant
May 23, 2019

That is an exporting problem. I mean some software or online programs when they export the PDFs they cant decode the font.

That is why you are getting that problem.

The font CIDFont+F1 is Arial (blod) and CIDFont+F2 is Arial (Regular)

VinGas65Author
Participant
October 3, 2018

Here are the dialogs for the issue. Original file font list and error. Both list CIDFont+ F1 to F12.

Extracted

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 3, 2018

Look at the fonts list in the original and the extracted PDF. (File->Properties or CTRL-D --> fonts tab)

What are the differences? Post the 2 dialogue boxes as screenshots.

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VinGas65Author
Participant
October 2, 2018

Sorry I intended to say that I had extracted the pages from the original file and the file created by the extraction was good. I did not export the pages.