Downloading pdf but it only comes up question marks

 · Hello, I have a public PDF with no Copying Restrictions. When I try to copy text from the PDF highlighted text to WORD I only get unreadable garbage. I can select the desired text and copy it into word but when I paste the text it is pasted like symbols and lines. I tried Special Paste and does no.  · Or, you can download a free trial of Acrobat 9 (Windows only). In Acrobat, you can use either the Typewriter tool or Form Field Recognition tool to create form fields. If the form creator enabled additional capabilities, then the Document Extensions panel (View Navigation Panels Document Extensions) is available.  · In your web browser, do one of the following: Mac OS: Choose File Open (or Open File). Windows: Press Control+O. Click Browse. (Windows only) From the Files Of Type menu, choose All Files. Locate a PDF on your computer, select it, and then click Open.

Converting a PDF file to any other format is one of the most complex things you can do with a PDF file. Text extraction will only work if everything that is necessary to map a glyph (that is the "drawing" of a character that you see on a PDF page) back to a character is stored in the PDF file. Something is wrong with the rendering of this PDF in Preview (or Quick Look). This is how it looks: I can see it in Adobe Reader on Windows. I'm not sure what font it is using, and I have Office installed, so I have all of those fonts. Why is it displaying question marks on everything (except the text in the bottom left)? Download PDF Reader. Try Acrobat Pro DC. Black Friday is on. Get 40% off. Get Acrobat Pro as part of Creative Cloud All Apps and save big. US$/mo, now US$/mo. Ends 26 Nov. First year only. See terms.

1. Hit PDF print button. 2. Click "Properties" 3. Under Adobe PDF Settings, UNCHECK the box that says "rely on system fonts only, do not use document fonts." You want to use document fonts. 4. Click "ok" (returns you to main dialog page). 5. Click "ok" again (from the main printer diolog). It should print the doc now. If this happens again. It sounds like Adobe is attempting to use its default fonts instead of the document's fonts. I was having a similar problem and the following fixed it for me (I'm using a Windows 7 Platform and Office Professional and was attempting to print a MapPoint Map to Adobe PDF in Adobe X.). Something is wrong with the rendering of this PDF in Preview (or Quick Look). This is how it looks: I can see it in Adobe Reader on Windows. I'm not sure what font it is using, and I have Office installed, so I have all of those fonts. Why is it displaying question marks on everything (except the text in the bottom left)?.