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Anonymous
August 28, 2017
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Adobe Acrobat IX Font List

  • August 28, 2017
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Hi, Does anyone know where/how I can get a visual list of the standard font formats available in Adobe Acrobat IX.

Albeit typing something with every font format to see what is looks like it would be great if someone can point me to a document that shows me what each font looks like.

Note: there is one available for Folio 11 but I can't see any of the same font formats as my IX version.. (http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/fontfolio/pdfs/fontfolio11.1_font_list.pdf )

Correct answer Dov Isaacs

Acrobat doesn't come bundled with fonts other than a few fonts used internally for font substitution. Acrobat (and Reader) normally display contents with the fonts that are embedded in the PDF files themselves or for PDF files without embedded fonts (strongly not recommended), fonts already on the system or standard substitution fonts provided by the operating system (such as Times New Roman and Arial) and Acrobat-provided substitution fonts.

          - Dov

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ero83vol
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October 30, 2018

Quick search and ***boom*** it's found:

https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/fontfolio/pdfs/fontfolio11.1_font_list.pdf

although it says 2012, so it may not include some contemporary ones, and I have no current desire to explore this further...if this even reaches you still in need, then I'm sorry the system failed you in this moment...all the best to you ***thumbs up***

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Legend
October 30, 2018

Quick search and *boom* we have something misleading and useless, I'm afraid. This response is not related to the question. The question is about Acrobat Pro 11, which as we have said, does not include fonts for editing.


Your response is about Font Folio 11. This also has 11 in the name, but that doesn't make it the same app. Font Folio is Adobe's complete font collection, with over 2000 fonts, costing around $3000. The original questioner had ALREADY found this information, and knew it to be no use...

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ero83vol
Participant
October 31, 2018

Comment sections are FUN.  Often informative, they also offer us a fair supply of amusement.  They also offer one an opportunity to collect and craft a thoughtful and witty response while countless others remain the eternal audience of the circuitboards.  Unless, of course, there is a misstep, which is still a win because humor is a gift from the universe. 

But I digress...and may I thank you for your thoroughly detailed explanation of the disparaging difference between Acrobat Pro 11 and Font Folio 11...but you missed the mark.

Perhaps you should have considered that someone else out here in this ever-expansive cyber-universe would have had pretty much the same exact question that led them to find this post...And what I found answered my question, because that question was clearly not answered here, and, if I may be so bold, could feel the frustration of the OP through his posts:

  • "***I'd just like to know what they look like.***

         I don't care too much about how they got there.. just what they look like..."

And I found that, and matched up the fonts in the program with that list so that I could see each one before I selected it.  Quick search, and "boom", I'm afraid...

Dov Isaacs
Dov IsaacsCorrect answer
Legend
August 28, 2017

Acrobat doesn't come bundled with fonts other than a few fonts used internally for font substitution. Acrobat (and Reader) normally display contents with the fonts that are embedded in the PDF files themselves or for PDF files without embedded fonts (strongly not recommended), fonts already on the system or standard substitution fonts provided by the operating system (such as Times New Roman and Arial) and Acrobat-provided substitution fonts.

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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Anonymous
August 28, 2017

Hi Dov. My Adobe Acrobat has quite a lot of fonts  which are standard in the software because I've not added or upgraded anything and many of them are not the regulars found in Word. If i had to count is say there is in excess of 40 different fonts.  Thanks for your post anyway.

Dov Isaacs
Dov Isaacs
Legend
August 28, 2017

Exactly what “quite a lot of fonts” do you think Acrobat is installing on your system?

The relatively few fonts involved with Acrobat are installed within the Acrobat application itself and not in the system's font directories for use other than within Acrobat, primarily for font substitution. These include various Asian language (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) and right-to-left language (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi) support fonts. These fonts are not available either via the Font Control Panel (Windows) or Fontbook (MacOS).

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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