How do I turn off BOLD when editing in Acrobat Pro DC?

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
October 17, 2016
5 replies
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There is a document I am editing and can't turn off the "bold" option in the format box.

The text I am editing is not bold and it is a font that is included in Acrobat.

I have tried changing fonts and even "adding text" and text still comes out "bold".

Maybe it's something dumb but I need to get this document done.

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Michelangelo Baroni

Participant

In the document I had to edit there were different text boxes, regular and bold. I tried to change a bold one into regular but I couldn't change it becasue I didn't have the regular version on my laptop. Try installing the missing font or by using an app, I personally use FontBase and I enable the fonts I need.

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sienna265622786xwl

Participant

Has this been resolved??? I was editing a document yesterday and everything worked fine. Today I have tried to edit again and my font is now stuck on bold. I cannot toggle off. It's the same content I was editing yesterday, how do I remove this? Please help.

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tae2580148033j9

Participant

I've tried control +B+B is the only way it works for me in windows even though it's a pain in the a** sometimes because it takes multiple tries to get it right ..

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ThomasLLL

Known Participant

5 years later, and the same question persists. By trial and error, I found the solution that worked for me. After clicking on the bold "T" (attempting to turn it off) for an hour and a half without success, and after all trying all the "Reset preferences" and "just change your font" mis-information out there, I found the solution (in my case anyway).

Go to Edit>Preferences. In the left menu, click Content Editing. Under Font Options, UNCLICK "Enable Artificial Bold/Italic styles."

Go back to your PDF, and the pesky T can now be toggled off.

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leighm71685537

Participant

The above worked for me (finally). I had to quit and restart Acrobat for the preference change to apply though. Phew! Thanks Thomas.

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defaulto6rnzzgrceul

Participant

I have this field unmarked, restarted my pc but still not works... 😞

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egdirdla

Participant

The answer given does not work for me. Even when I highlight the text to be 'un-bolded' and click the T (which is blue), the text stays bold. Must I really go back to the original doc to edit out the bold? Kind of makes having 'PRO' not really worthwhile.

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DnD_Billing___Credential

Participant

Hello, did you ever find out how to undo the bold while editing?

I'm getting pretty frustrated with it myself.

Karl Heinz Kremer

Community Expert

If you have a font that is already bold, you cannot turn off bold. It's part of the font, and you will have to go back to the original application and change it there, or change the font in Acrobat, but that may cause misalignments and should only be your last resort.

In this screenshot, you see that the "Bold" is actually part of the font name. This may not always be the case, but I would assume that if you cannot turn off bold, you are dealing with a bold font.