Hi there!
In many of the Chinese language PDFs from journal articles, bits are missing: rare characters, western letters and numbers. The PDFs display fine in Adobe Reader, but not in Preview, Devonthink, and on the iPad in PDF expert.
Any suggestions what I can do to get these display properly? As a historian, a lot of my material contains rare charaters.
Thanks in advance!
iPad 2, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), iMac
I'm sure the only thing you can do is to use the app which works, Adobe Reader, which is available for both OS X and iOS.
Such problems are not uncommon with pdf's in non-Latin scripts -- it is not a good format to use for such things.
Too bad that is the case... Adobe Reader is not my favourite app, but if it is the only way I can see what the number of a footnote is, I don't have much choice 😟
Thanks Tom! I'll just hope somebody else drops by with a miracle cure.
you could try looking at the properties item in the Adobe reader menus and see what fonts are in the doc and then see if you could find these and add them to your machine. That might help preview and other apps display things correctly.
Chinese characters missing in PDFs (Preview)
