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August 6, 2026
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New Acrobat Pro Font Menu Bug: Missing System Fonts and Broken Font Search

  • August 6, 2026
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I’m very surprised I don’t see other people complaining about this. With the new Adobe Acrobat pro the Format Text list changed. It used to just display all your fonts in alphabetical order, and now you have fonts in used, your computer ( which does not display any fonts you have installed ) and your fonts.

Im adding images to make it more clear.

  • The first image you can see how the new list.
  • the 2nd image is what the list used to look like.
  • the 3rd image, you can see Acrobat sees my akkurat font. I’m able to select that as fallback font for editing under Preferences > content editing.
  • 4th image, if i want to change text to the akkurat font Adobe cannot find the font.
  • 5th image im able to search and change the font in word since they did not make searching for fonts as awful as Adobe Acrobat did. 


I had an adobe tech remote into my computer and they were unable to find my fonts. The only way is to disable new Acrobat which has the alphabetical font list like every other application.. 

 

 

    5 replies

    Meenakshi0101
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    August 11, 2026

    Hi individualistic_Coast2514, and Sandy.King,

     

    Thank you for reaching out, and sorry to hear that you are experiencing an issue.

     

    We appreciate you sharing the screenshots to help describe the problem. Could you please confirm the current version numbers of Acrobat and your operating system installed on your machine? Additionally, let us know if this behaviour has changed recently.

    Once we have all the information, I will share it with the team for review.

     

    We look forward to your response.

     

    Thanks,

    Meenakshi

     

     

     

    Randy Hagan
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    August 6, 2026

    You have just answered your own question. The answer is to Disable New Acrobat from the sandwich menu at the upper-left and reboot into the old Acrobat interface.

     

    It’s unfortunate, but it works flawlessly. You’ll find that there are several other functions that aren’t available in the New Acrobat interface but are still working as they always did in the Old Acrobat interface, so it’s good to keep this trick in mind.

     

    Hope this helps,

     

    Randy

    Participant
    August 10, 2026

    But this is a terrible solution! The old interface is dramatically different from the current one. It’s completely outdated--looks like something from 1996. There has to be a better way.