A UK company made safety data sheets in Russian in PDF format.
I view these files on their computer which was running English w2k and they
were OK

However on my russified w2k with the system code page 866 I am getting that
gobbledegook from the upper part of 1252 coding table

What should I do to view it correctly?

For a Russian system, the system code page is 1251, not 866.
Can you explain a bit what you have there?


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I have w2k bought in Russia and described as russified. I do not know what
exactly it means, but all the system messages come in Russian.
Russian is set as defalt in Control Panel--> Languages

As to 866 and 1251 - 866 is what is returned against chcp commmand in the
DOS prompt.
If English is set as default, chcp returns 850, not 1252



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Any more ideas on that?

"aa" <A (AT) aa (DOT) com> wrote

But I would check the following:
- what version of PDF it is (see File-Document properties in Acrobat)
- was it created with Adobe Acrobat, or some cheap clone (also in Document
properties )
- are the fonts embeded?

I am asking because Acrobat got better and better from version to version in
handling foreign languages. And I have seen clones doing poorly in this area.

Mihai

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Thanks, Mihai,

1. File-Document properties say:
PDF producer Acrobat PDFWriter 3.02 for Windows
PDF version 1,2 (Acrobat 3,x)
I am viewing it in Acrobat 6

2. I do not know what it was made with. I only know that the file was
created probably 5 years ago by a reputable company which is unlikly to use
clones

3. I do not know if the fonts are embedded. How do I know this?
File-Document properties - Fonts - Fonts used in this documents says that
4 fonts are used in this document:
Arial, Arial Bold, WLCyrillicSans and WLCyrillicSans Bold. (None shows
correctly). Encoding ANSI

If you have time to looks at it, I uploaded the file here:
www.andrei.plus.com/hkw/ccp.pdf



"Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

And I think support for languages ouside Latin-1 was only added in version 4.


the document is not Unicode).
I cannot see it ok on English XP, with Acrobat 7.

Is is ok if I manage to recover the text out of the thing? Let's say as Word
document? Or you really need to see the original PDF?


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Thanks, Mihai
I definitely remember seeing it correctly when I was in the UK several years
ago. I think it was W98 computer or w2000.

Yes it is OK to recover the text out of the thing as Word Document/ Actually
I copy-and-paste in Word - same effect

I did copy-and-paste it into Notepad saved the result as html file both
as ANSI and UTF8, played with charset=windows-1251, utf-8 but nothing helped




"Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

The Acrobat version, language, installed fonts, code pages installed,
OS version, OS language, temperature, wind direction, etc. :-)

Ok, see here: http://www.mihai-nita.net/mix/ccpfix.zip

Secret: copy-paste in Notepad and save as 1252 (for instance on US system),
then open the file as 1250 (for instance on Russian system).

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Thanks a lot, Mihai? it looks OK now.
I am going to use your technique to recover another 50 files like that.
When you are talking about US system and Russian system - does it mean that
I can get this by setting the English US and then the Russian as default in
Control Panel --->Languges and Standards ?

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