WOW! I was pleasantly surprised, I opened a 20 page ID PDFD booklet file into 2019 update 3 and it has been going amazingly well.
All text came in as artistic text as expected but I did have one issue ffi came in as a chinese character.
another oddity I've found, even with text converted, is that the "fi" characters used together will drop the dot on the lowercase "i". Are you saying that isn't the case at all and that it's actually a chinese character?