So despite using a fully updated version of adobe on a corporate licence, I too am having the same insane issue of overlapping text when editing a pdf.   It's actually impressive and amazing that Adobe manages to perpetrate bizarre and inexplicable faults like this (like the one where numbers are rendered as symbols) and not only are users in a situation where multiple updates of the software don't solve the issue, we are trying to troubleshoot solutions as Adobe themselves can't resolve it, whilst charging our companies through thbe nose for this appalling software.  It's so atrocious it's incredible, a sort of software version of Thames Water's level of management competance.   I cannot wait until there is a viable alternative! ... View more

Totally agree.  To think I insisted that my company paid for this terrible buggy software.  What a massive waste of my time and everyone else's, fixing things that the Adobe team should have sorted out BEFORE releasing the software. ... View more

I cannot tell you how helpful this answer is - very much appreciated.  It is staggering to me that working in a UK office with 100% english language being used, why on earth Acrobat would default to this insane setting.  I was about to give up and send a handwritten amendment because the software is so useless and frustrating.  Hard to believe the Acrobat is more awkward to use now that it was in 2004.  Infuriating! ... View more