Bug? Japanese characters (kanji) corrupted in saved PDF

nathan.hopson
PDF from the publisher site opens in Zotero PDF reader with corrupted characters.

A few examples follow, with the affected characters bracketed by **

Original 1:
世界の実*験*場
Zotero 1:
世界の実*騔*場

Original 2:
投票したい政党がないから、*自*分たちでゼロからつくる
Zotero 2:
投票したい政党がないから、*臫*分たちでゼロからつくる

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/apj.2025.10018
  • mjthoraval
    Which Zotero version and OS?
  • nathan.hopson
    PDF saved (never opened) in an earlier version of Zotero (probably 7, maybe 8)
    Now running 10.0-beta.5+b7437faf5

    macOS 26.5.1 (25F80)
  • poettli
    edited 2 days ago
    Works fine for me with the same configuration. And all fonts (subset) are embedded (Advent Pro and Noto Sans). Do you see the correct kanji in Preview?
  • nathan.hopson
    No, nor in Acrobat or Skim.

    I redownloaded it the PDF. It displays properly, but even the pagination is different with the fonts properly embedded. Had to redo all my highlights and notes, but worth it.

    Any pointers for how to avoid this in the future?
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