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January 15, 2018
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Editable Embedded Fonts

  • January 15, 2018
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Hello!

I am creating an editable proposal template for a customer, and I am having trouble figuring out how to embed the font used in the editable fields. The original file was created in InDesign and I added the editable fields in Acrobat DC. All of the other fonts are embedded and pose no issues. However, when someone without the font used for the editable fields (Univers) opens the document, it appears in a different font and all of the letters are overlapping.

I tried switching the font used to one that was embedded in other areas of the PDF, but that still had the same result. I saw in another post (Editable PDF template with embedded fonts in text fields and images you can swap in and out. ) someone referred to allowing editable embedding. This seems like what I need to do, but I am having trouble figuring out how to do that.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thank you!

Chelsea

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Correct answer harshas13

Hi Chelsea,

Apologies for the delay in response to your query.

You can embed a non local font into a pdf using the Preflight tool (Go to Tool > Print Production > Preflight)

Search for the keyword embed under fixups and then select Analyze and fix.

You may also use Acrobat Distiller to do the needful.

Please refer to the below link for detailed description on how to do it.

PDF fonts, Adobe Acrobat

Please note that not all fonts can be fully embeded, if there is a problem embeding a font Acrobat will notify you.

-Harsha

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Dov Isaacs
Dov Isaacs
Legend
April 24, 2018

You need to check the embedding flags of the font. You can do so under Windows by right-clicking the font file and looking under the Details tab under Font Embeddability. The values of either Editable or Installable indicates that you can use the font for a forms field. The value of Preview & Print restricts the use of a font against use in an editable form.

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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    Prateek_user
    Participating Frequently
    September 18, 2021

    The font I am trying to embedd has "Installable" as the Font Embeddability but its still not embedding.. 

    harshas13
    Adobe Employee
    harshas13Correct answer
    Adobe Employee
    April 24, 2018

    Hi Chelsea,

    Apologies for the delay in response to your query.

    You can embed a non local font into a pdf using the Preflight tool (Go to Tool > Print Production > Preflight)

    Search for the keyword embed under fixups and then select Analyze and fix.

    You may also use Acrobat Distiller to do the needful.

    Please refer to the below link for detailed description on how to do it.

    PDF fonts, Adobe Acrobat

    Please note that not all fonts can be fully embeded, if there is a problem embeding a font Acrobat will notify you.

    -Harsha

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