Why is Adobe Acrobat so innumerate?

The image below shows Adobe Acrobat’s conversion to Microsoft Powerpoint of a typical slide produced by LaTeX and Beamer. The original is shown below.

For the £70 annual fee Adobe charge for turning on this misfeature, I think one might expect something better. The execrable kerning is just one final kick in the teeth. Fortunately for my credit card, I was able to brandish the Consumer Contracts Regulations in an online chat and have been promised a full refund. I’ve seen similar glitches in journal papers: the culprit now seems clear. As an alternative on the Mac, I suggest using pdf-to-keynote and then exporting from Keynote. Or better still, have nothing to do with either Adobe or Microsoft — if only that were feasible. In fairness, I should note that the output from Adobes’s conversion is editable in Microsoft Powerpoint; unfortunately the only reasonable edit one could make it to delete the lot and start over.