How is this even possible?
I cant comprehend how a tool can be coded the way it produces this kind of nonsense.
I would assume at least basic characters would be OK but not even the basic english alphabet is correct.
výkaz reziva.pdf (406.2 KB)
this is funny too. my experience is that autocad does it right 99 percent of time.
this is why i strongly appeal there must be a primitive native robust tool to paate excel tables into rhino. rught now there is no way except raster images which look terrible printed.
hi @Juan_Gallo thanks for reporting,
RH-89608 faulty pdf import
in case it helps:
pdf-import-repair.3dm (195.0 KB)
how did you make it work?
convoluted … I tried a pdf > xlsx online converter and then re-exported it to a new pdf, which then imported still in a weird way with hatches and stuff, so not even good enough as a temporary solution
@Juan_Gallo
can you share the initial xlsx ?
my guess - it s some strange font or character / encoding issue.
if you do not use any of the special characters š á í ž... also not in the title, not in the xlsx file name, nor in the pdf file name, and use pure Arial everywhere - does the problem still come up ?
did you use some special setting / compression on the pdf export ?
it’s readable, but it still requires a bit of work to get it decent. It would be interesting to see if this issue can be tackled at the source by using a different font
I did change font to Arial, but the re-exported PDF encodes the font name as BAAAAA+ArialMT. This font then isn’t found and replaced with Arial.
The import gives the error Could not find embedded font "BAAAAA+ArialMT".
That is probably something that should be fixed in the PDF import.
The re-exported file: výkaz reziva libreoffice arial.pdf (50.3 KB)
The original PDF is using the fonts CIDfont+F1 and CIDfont+F2. CID fonts, which were developed to support large character sets, primarily for oriental languages, are reported to be problematic in other applications - this PDF breaks Adobe Acrobat for example.
Were these fonts used from necessity? If not, I’d avoid them.
my father made the excel i will ask him why he changed the font from typically used 