I have a personal pdf document with no security features enabled and is packed with embedded fonts.
If I try to extract multiple pages from this document, Adobe Acrobat (version 6.0 Pro) completely crashes with the following errors:
--The instruction at "0x007e530e" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read".--
--The instruction at "0x2d8818d3" referenced memory at "0x00000008". The memory could not be "read".--
(One or more of these errors can occur as I've heard from others who had the same problem...)
Another strange fact I've found is that if I extract a single page at a time, Acrobat doesn't crash. Instead, I receive the following error upon viewing the page or if the page is inserted into another document:
--Cannot extract the embedded font '[font's name]'. Some characters may not display or print correctly.--
I am really concerned with Acrobat's unstable way of handling extraction of embedded fonts aka "crashing" since I have many pdf documents with fonts embedded in them, and I don't want to this problem to continue.
Manually extracting each page one at a time is not an option since they throw out errors even after the extraction
was successful.
From what I've read in:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Graphics/Adobe_Acrobat/Q_20946012.htmlI understand that I might need to get Acrobat 5 or use a method to extract embedded fonts since Acrobat 6
seems to have removed this feature. However, extracting the fonts is not my goal. I want to find a way to replace these "crash causing" embedded fonts for good. (Or even find a way to prevent Acrobat from crashing upon extraction of these documents)
My question is this: How can I go about finding some way to detect all "non-extractable" embedded fonts in a pdf document and replace them with an alternative font?
If this is not possible, I would like to know how I can correctly extract the pages in the pdf document with embedded fonts without having Acrobat crash unexpectedly.
Any ideas?
