Adobe Fonts in Adobe Acrobat

Hi there

Hope you are doing well and thanks for reaching out and sharing the details 
 

Just to make sure we’re on the same page and to narrow this down a bit, could you confirm a few things for me?

• Are you seeing this warning only when applying Fort / Fort Black to form fields in Acrobat, while the same font works fine for static text from InDesign?
• Are you testing the form across different machines, or mainly concerned about how it appears when shared with others?
• Is this happening on both Mac and Windows, or just one OS?

Even though Adobe Fonts are licensed for desktop and PDF use, not all fonts allow embedding for interactive form fields. If the font’s license flags it as “no embedding” for form fields, Acrobat will block it and show the message you’re seeing.

So it’s a font embedding permission restriction tied to how Acrobat handles form field fonts.

Here are few steps that you can try and see if that helps:

1. Use a fallback font for form fields:
   Use a standard embeddable font (like Helvetica, Arial, or Myriad Pro) for the fillable fields, while keeping Fort / Fort Black for the static design elements.

2. Convert styled text to outlines in InDesign (for non-editable text)
   If Fort is used only for labels or headings (not the user-input fields), keep those as static text from InDesign. Acrobat will embed those fine, since they’re no longer editable fields.

3. Use a different Adobe Font that supports embedding in form fields
   You can test another font family with similar styling and see if Acrobat allows embedding for fields.

If a font isn’t embedded in form fields, recipients who don’t have that font installed will see font substitution, which can cause:

• Text shifting
• Layout issues
• Misaligned form content

Hope this informtion will help

~Amal