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Originally Posted by JSWolf
It's very easy to remove embedded fonts if there are any. However, this does not look like an embedded font issue. It looks like a very poor conversion.
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The problem is not fonts embedded in the PDF, but fonts accessed in the typesetting program that was used to create the for-print book that was then (lazily) converted to PDF. In other words, it might well be a bad PDF more than a bad
conversion from PDF. It's the equivalent of hardcoding 1 inch = 25mm into a source file — the end result after a further conversion is still off, but the cause isn't the further conversion.
It could also be justification-by-inserting-nonbreaking-partial-spaces, a method that has been largely abandoned in higher-end typesetting programs but may afterward be treated during conversion as if those are intentional spaces. That is slightly less likely than usual for Bens1912's problem, as a much higher proportion of French-language books are printed without full justification; maybe it was just a "lucky" instance, though.
Note that neither of these problems can be readily improved by tweaking a conversion-from-PDF — they're both PDF-creation-workflows-that-worked-in-2002 sorts of things that resulted in quirky PDFs.