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online PDF's displaying wrong text encoding

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FF version 39.0 (up to date), on a Mac OSX 10.7.5 . I have refreshed FF.

ISSUE: When viewing online PDF's, the text is corrupt.

My default language is set to English. When I copy text from these PDF's into any other application, it pastes in as EN text. If I download/open PDF's in Preview, they open correctly/are readable. I have disabled/enabled the Adode viewer extension - issue persisted. I have run FF in safe mode - issue persisted.

FF version 39.0 (up to date), on a Mac OSX 10.7.5 . I have refreshed FF. ISSUE: When viewing online PDF's, the text is corrupt. My default language is set to English. When I copy text from these PDF's into any other application, it pastes in as EN text. If I download/open PDF's in Preview, they open correctly/are readable. I have disabled/enabled the Adode viewer extension - issue persisted. I have run FF in safe mode - issue persisted.

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I still have this issue. What options to I have to resolve this?

bexybexy said

FF version 39.0 (up to date), on a Mac OSX 10.7.5 . I have refreshed FF. ISSUE: When viewing online PDF's, the text is corrupt. My default language is set to English. When I copy text from these PDF's into any other application, it pastes in as EN text. If I download/open PDF's in Preview, they open correctly/are readable. I have disabled/enabled the Adode viewer extension - issue persisted. I have run FF in safe mode - issue persisted.
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