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Article #384Re: cannot find or create font
From: Bacchus
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:27
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:27
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Just a follow up, found another pdf reader called Foxit Software. Works great for me. n Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:26:47 +0000, Bacchus wrote: > I have been searching through the Internet and different newsgroups > trying to find a solution to my problem. > > I've only been able to find a few other people who have the same > problem but no one has answered their question. > I'm a little surprised that so few people have had this problem. > > It started several months ago, it seems after some updates or > something, every PDF file I try to open I would get error cannot find > or create font such and such even though I had the font on my > computer. > > Due to Windows instability, I had to format and reinstall it about a > month ago. I installed the Adobe reader seven and it worked fine. I > was so happy. Now last week it started over again. I can't open any > Acrobat file, well the file opens but the pages are blank except for > pictures. I get the same error and yes I do have the fonts on my > computer. > > I had installed several hundred fonts from a package to my system a > couple weeks ago. Is it possible the built-in fonts were overridden > and Acrobat does not recognize them. I have a feeling it is these > fonts that caused the problem, but other than formatting again > reinstalling Windows which I really hate to do, I don't know what else > to do > > I have tried to uninstall and reinstall acrobat couple a times. I > have searched through the registry and tried to find any reference to > Acrobat reader and remove them by hand. I didn't find any. > > I'm about ready to give up on it, but of course so many things use PDF > files I can't give up on the PDF files. Worse comes to worse, I can > always send the files over to my Linux machine and read them there. > It is just a little inconvenient. > > Thanks for any help anyone can provide
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