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Topic: Re: Can't merge files (insertpages) - same subset font names (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) What's Wrong with my PDF?, Msg: 138941
From: LeonardR
Date: 9/5/2005 12:37 PM

At 07:44 AM 9/5/2005, p-pdf-whats-wrong-with-my-pdf Listmanager wrote:
>I have a routine that joins PDFs together, and it has worked for a
>few dozen seperate files, now it doesn't like one.

OK...


>The error returned when I do the insert manually is:
>"These documents contain subset fonts that contain the same name and
>cannot be merged."

Well the message is pretty clear as to the problem.

You are trying to merge two PDFs which have the same named
subset font - and, although permitted by the PDF specification,
Acrobat is unable to handle it :(.


>Any clues on how to get around this problem?

Yes, you MUST use a 3rd party PDF merging application to
merge these files as Acrobat will NOT perform a merge of this type
due to a design limitation (that has been there since version 3 (at
least) and Adobe has no plans to fix).


Leonard

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