Americ font in PDF how to open?

[Chuck Peterson]

I got a PDF from a customer with what he calls an Americ font. Looks like different characters, I don't know how to describe. I need to open this in Omega or Illustrator and it shows as a bunch of boxes. I can see it in Microsoft Word in the correct characters. I have done this before, but can't recall how. It doesn't need to be editable text, just vector shapes.
Anybody have an idea?
Thanks.

 

[Jay Grooms]

Convert the PDF to outlines and then open. It's because you don't have whatever font it is installed.

 

[Chuck Peterson]

I tried that but it just outlines a bunch of boxes with x's in them instead of what shows as Arabic (or Aramic?) in Word.
It says the missing font is SegoeUIHistoric. I got the font but something'd still whacked out.

 

[Chuck Peterson]

A little more info - In Adobe Acrobat it looks correct. I wish I could convert to outlines, but Acrobat doesn't appear to have thet option. In Illustrator it doesnt help to convert to outlines, because it doesn't look correct.

 

[Chuck Peterson]

I did it. I found my old notes from last time. I saves the PDF as EPS in Acrobat. Now it opens as outlines in Illustrator and Omega.

Thanks.

 

[Marie]

Try this - open a blank drawing board in Illustrator. File/place the PDF file. Then with the placed PDF selected, Object/flatten transparency. Make the settings: High resolution / 100 / Convert all text to outlines. I actually think that I learned this trick from a Signs101 post a long time ago.