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What happened to Japanese in pdfs with iOS6?

I have more than a thousand pdfs that are lesson notes for these Japanese language classes I'm taking in my iPad 3rd generation.

The text in these are a mixture of kanji, kana and romaji (English text). I upgraded to iOS6 yesterday and now none of the Japanese text is showing up in my pdfs. I have an ebook that does have the text, but the pdfs do not.

These were working fine before iOS6 was installed. Is there any way to fix these without having to open each PDF and doing a 'save as' to embed the fonts into the files? Like I said, there are more than a thousand of these on my iPad, and using it for my lesson notes is the major reason why I got the iPad in the first place (not to mention the fact that this and GoodReader are the two apps I use most heavily).

I even changed the iPad's system language to Japanese and still no kana.

Help?????

iPad, iOS 6, 16GB

Posted on Sep 20, 2012 12:47 PM

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MrsSpooky Author

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Jan 28, 2013 1:29 PM in response to MrsSpooky

iOS 6.1 is out and it did NOT fix the problem.

Sent another bug feedback to http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html (and yes, it's a bug, because this USED to work!).

I went to the japanesepod101.com message board where this issue is discussed to let them know and have them send feedback.

If only one or two people are complaining about it they won't do anything.

I loved my iPad (this was the whole reason I bought the thing), but now it's not working for the function I bought it for. I have all my friends telling me I should have gotten the Android tablet. I'm startng to think they were probably right.

Sorry, just really upset.

Tom Gewecke

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Jan 28, 2013 3:38 PM in response to MrsSpooky

Are you really not able to copy/paste Japanese from these pdf's when you open them with Adobe Reader? I don't seem to have that problem with other pdf's.

MrsSpooky Author

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Jan 28, 2013 4:11 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

I haven't been able to copy a single word/character without it selecting an entire sentence. And I hate how Adobe reader works. I bought GoodReader to manage my large number of pdfs and it works perfectly - and I spent a lot of money on it too. I don't like Adobe Reader, I don't like how it works when scrolling through the pages of the pdf. Part of the reason for that is I'm not used to it and it doesn't do as much as GoodReader does.

I don't know what irritates me more - that Apple broke this functionality or that GoodReader is perfectly happy to keep their application broken, waiting for Apple to fix what THEY broke.

MrsSpooky Author

Level 1

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Aug 7, 2013 11:07 AM in response to MrsSpooky

I just wanted to let everyone know - japanesepod101.com went and redid their pdfs and now the Japanese characters show up in iOS 6 and GoodReader (or whatever your reader of choice is on iOS).

I went back and looked at previous lesson notes - if you don't see the red semicircles on either side of the front page, then it's the new format that will work on iOS.

Re downloading them now.

MrsSpooky Author

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Mar 10, 2014 1:18 PM in response to MrsSpooky

I found that this was fixed in iOS 7 and wanted to make a note of that. This was after Japanesepod101.com kindly embedded the fonts in their lesson notes.

I have a few of the uncorrected pdfs left on my iPad and now they work under iOS 7. Took long enough, but it looks like it won't happen again - until maybe it gets broken again in iOS8.

What happened to Japanese in pdfs with iOS6?