Hi.

I have a pdf that uses many subsetted fonts. I want to change them but I 
don't know how to do it with Acrobat Professional.

Is there a way?
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Sensei <noone@nowhere.org> wrote:

>Hi.
>
>I have a pdf that uses many subsetted fonts. I want to change them but I 
>don't know how to do it with Acrobat Professional.

What do you want to do about the subsetted fonts?
>
>Is there a way?

One line at a time, you can change fonts.
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Aandi Inston wrote:
>>I have a pdf that uses many subsetted fonts. I want to change them but I 
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> What do you want to do about the subsetted fonts?

Read it.

> One line at a time, you can change fonts.

No, I can't. Acrobat when I select a text and change the font says:

``The change to a different font was not done because the chosen font 
and the font encodings in the documente differ and could not be resolved''.

I can only add new text but not delete existing text.
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Sensei <noone@nowhere.org> wrote:

>Aandi Inston wrote:
>>>I have a pdf that uses many subsetted fonts. I want to change them but I 
>                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> What do you want to do about the subsetted fonts?
>
>Read it.

Do you mean that it is displayed wrongly on screen?
>
>> One line at a time, you can change fonts.
>
>No, I can't. Acrobat when I select a text and change the font says:
>
>``The change to a different font was not done because the chosen font 
>and the font encodings in the documente differ and could not be resolved''.

Not heard of that one, but it seems a bad sign. Unusual.
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Aandi Inston wrote:
> Do you mean that it is displayed wrongly on screen?

No: I just want to change fonts all over the document.

> Not heard of that one, but it seems a bad sign. Unusual.

!!!

Bad sign? Do you mean that the document is somehow broken? It's 
perfectly shown and printed. But changing fonts is somehow not 
permitted, even if the document security is disabled.

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Sensei <noone@nowhere.org> wrote:

>Aandi Inston wrote:
>> Do you mean that it is displayed wrongly on screen?
>
>No: I just want to change fonts all over the document.

You might not be able to.
>
>> Not heard of that one, but it seems a bad sign. Unusual.
>
>!!!
>
>Bad sign? Do you mean that the document is somehow broken?

No, but although it's not a message I've ever heard of I get the
intention of it, and it doesn't sound likely you will succeed (unless
you are making a basic error, see below).

> It's 
>perfectly shown and printed. But changing fonts is somehow not 
>permitted, even if the document security is disabled.

The problem claims to be the font encoding. It may be that the PDF
uses a private encoding, so nothing can substitute. Acrobat does not
know what letters are used, only what picture to show; this would not
be editable.

The alternative is that you are trying to replace the font with one
from the wrong character set, e.g. to replace a Japanese font with a
Western European font.


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Aandi Inston wrote:
> You might not be able to.

Why? My pdf is changes-allowed... So I think this should be enough...

> The problem claims to be the font encoding. It may be that the PDF
> uses a private encoding, so nothing can substitute. Acrobat does not
> know what letters are used, only what picture to show; this would not
> be editable.

Ok. I resolved bypassing the pdf in this way:

I made a pdf document with the fonts I wanted. Converted both documents 
to postscript. Deleted the %%BeginSetup ... %%EndSetup from the strange 
document (which contains only the font difinitions) in the strange pdf 
and copied the font embedding form my document, changing all the strange 
fonts into my new ones.

I't nearly impossible to change the pdf... it's so difficult: I have to 
translate it, so I must change the entire content, and changing 
something screws up all the formats, positions...

Acrobat it's not a good pdf editor... Do you know any good wysiwig 
editor? Even postcript...

> The alternative is that you are trying to replace the font with one
> from the wrong character set, e.g. to replace a Japanese font with a
> Western European font.

Unfortunately, the ``bad'' fonts are western european...
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Hi Sensei,

Sensei wrote:
[..]
> I't nearly impossible to change the pdf... it's so difficult: I have 
> to translate it, so I must change the entire content, and changing
> something screws up all the formats, positions...
> 
> Acrobat it's not a good pdf editor... Do you know any good wysiwig
> editor? Even postcript...

it's not Acrobat that's a "bad PDF editor", but it's "editing PDFs"
that's a bad idea in the first place � you should always edit the file
that was used to created the PDF and make a new one ...

2cents
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Sensei <noone@nowhere.org> wrote:

>I't nearly impossible to change the pdf... it's so difficult: I have to 
>translate it, so I must change the entire content, and changing 
>something screws up all the formats, positions...

I have seen many questions from people who thought translating a PDF
would be a simple job. I have not heard from ANYONE who succeeded to
translate a large work.

Get the original.

>Acrobat it's not a good pdf editor... 

PDF is just not suitable. There's no memory of the page settings,
paragraphs, styles, text flow, hyphenation rules - just a picture, in
effect. Would you try to translate the text in a TIFF...?
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