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Old 02-28-2018, 08:15 AM
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Question Adobe Acrobat issue?

I purchased a nice little kit of a F4F-3 Wildcat from S&P, recolored by Gerry from the ecardmodels site. While I was drooling over it. I noticed something missing. The A/C codes "F-1" were not there! I PM'd Gerry about this and he replied saying they were there on the copy he sent to ecards. I checked again and they were still not there. For some reason I opened the file with my Android Google PDF reader and they were there! I fiddled around in Adobe for a while and changed the mode to "single page" The codes appeared! For some reason they do not show in "reading mode" but work fine in all the other modes.

I have Googled for issues with Adobe and there are a lot but not apparently directly explaining this issue. Has anyone else had this or a similar problem with Adobe? In any case be aware of this if you use Acrobat on at least Android.
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Old 02-28-2018, 08:35 AM
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I just opened the file on my pc and the lettering is there.

Perhaps it is an adobe version issue?
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Old 02-28-2018, 08:47 AM
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It may be due to Acrobat reader not able to read certain information from the file. It sometimes happen.
You can try updating your PDF reader, or opening the file in another application, as you already did.
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Old 02-28-2018, 01:46 PM
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Its possible to save a PDF with all text attributes intact.
Problem is, the viewer needs to have the correct fonts, etc on their system to view it properly.
This is why most save settings allow for changing text to curves so they are visible as artwork.
And any sort of web optimization usually includes this step.

But in any view mode, single page, or panel, landscape, portrait, etc... the fonts would not be there.
If you only have an issue in one viewing mode, it sounds like a program glitch.
Try updating and maybe even reinstalling.

How old is your Acrobat?
I have had issues with my older Acrobat 9 not properly viewing PDFs saved specifically as newer versions.
I make my own PDFs backwards compatible. I think the default setting is Acrobat 4?
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Old 03-02-2018, 10:16 AM
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Sounds like viewer bug to me.

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Problem is, the viewer needs to have the correct fonts, etc on their system to view it properly...
The fonts can be also embedded in PDF, which is often the case if you don't use the pre-defined basic PDF fonts (which are few and contain mostly characters of english alphabet only).
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