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  1. Garbled Characters when try to open a PDF in the Adobe Reader

    Jul 30, 2025 · If they’re missing, it won’t try to “guess” substitutions, and this can result in unreadable characters (especially for non-Latin scripts or symbol fonts). In other words, Garbled characters often …

  2. Re: Acrobat PDF text shows as unreadable squares.

    Aug 15, 2024 · I'm having problems getting the text in this PDF to actually show, I've tried selecting and changing the font, I've tried going into the printing preferences and disabling "Rely on system fonts …

  3. Solved: Scrambled Text when viewing PDF documents in Acrob.

    Nov 21, 2017 · Hi all, We are running into a strange issue with Acrobat Standard XI when viewing PDF documents sent to us by a client. Some of the text appears to be scrambled and unreadable, yet the …

  4. Solved: Default Font Changing To Unreadable Characters in ... - Adobe ...

    Mar 16, 2018 · As the title suggests we are using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2015.006.30417. On many of our machines when we open a pdf and goto to fill in parts of the pdf it writes in an unreadable …

  5. Solved: Pdf file covered to Word doc is garbled - Adobe Product ...

    Jul 5, 2018 · Solved: I have covered a pdf file to Word however the converted document is garbled an cannot be read, how do I get to converted document to reflect the pdf - 9942143

  6. Weird characters pasted after copying text from PDF file

    Oct 18, 2011 · I get weird characters pasted after copying text from PDF file. For instance, a plain English sentence or word becomes something like: VGHOGHH ...

  7. Weird jibberish characters in PDF - Adobe Product Community

    Feb 11, 2020 · I know there has been a lot of talk about this topic. BUT - Why is it, that I have two similar PCs in my office - both run standard windows 10, and acrobat pro dc. But on one of them some …

  8. Copying and pasting text in PDF turns to gibberish

    Nov 25, 2018 · Hi quintonv, As mentioned, you are getting gibberish text when copying and pasting text from pdf, it seems the issue seems to be the font related. If the fonts of PDF don't have Unicode …

  9. unreadable text on PDF for some users - Adobe Support Community

    Mar 31, 2021 · I am having an issues where a few users are opening PDFs from a vendor and getting unreadable text (see image), but others with the same version of Adobe Reader DC are able to see …

  10. text unreadable when using adobe acrobat to print pdf

    Jan 25, 2012 · When printing to a pdf with adobe acrobat professional version 9 all i get is lots of symbols in place of the original text. I have tried printing preview, converting webpage to pdf etc but …