I am trying to read a few PDF documents with Acrobat and I get this error message of a missing font, and that the document may not display properly. I see asteriks where the text with the wacky font should be and I need a way to trick Acrobat reader or writer(I have both) to display the text in ANY font. I can read 99% of the PDF file which happens to be a technical manual but this one particular font shows up as large dots where a substituted font should appear. The attached zip is a screenshot of the error I get in Acrobat. It seems that font substitution is failing, apparently the font [login to view URL] is not embedded in the PDF document, and is not present in my windows fonts and is not being substituted correctly for some odd reason. The exact error message I get from Acrobat is: "Unable to find or create the font '[login to view URL]'. Some characters may not display or print correctly". If you want to see for yourself go to this url: [login to view URL] Go down to page 160 and keep scrolling down until you are on page 163...then you might get this error. In fact you probably will.
## Deliverables
I need someone to show me how to make all the fonts visible through substitution or any other way you can think of. If not....then you could convert the PDFs into word documents or embed a substitute font into the PDFs such as plain courier. Here is another PDF document on the same web site that you might want to test your tricks on: [login to view URL] If you scroll down to page 49 you will get the same error on the courier font. It will say: 4. Type in **** in the User Name text box.... 5. Type in ****** in the password text box. Blah..blah blah(blah blah password should be ******) Well in 4. the username is 'root' and in 5 the password is 'nmc123' and the alternate password is 'teleos'. This I can confirm by experience...now that you know what the substituted font characters should look like, it will make it a lot easier to crack the PDFs since its likely that all 3 problem PDFs on that web site have the exact same font problem and thus the exact same solution.
## Platform
Windows, Adobe Acrobat.
## Deadline information
If you bid...then you must be able to do it right away. This is a quick job for the person who knows exactly what they are doing...it should take less than 30 minutes even if you have to convert all the PDFs to Word docs. If you have no clue as to how to read these fonts then please dont bid if its going to take you hours and days to do this.