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rachelcenter
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July 16, 2026
Question

Why is acrobat showing text that looks so screwed up in the Fill&Sign process of a pdf?

  • July 16, 2026
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When I open an empty W9 in acrobat and choose “fill & sign” look at how its typing out the fonts. It looks messed up like its using different fonts in one sentence. They look mismatched. Certain letters look stretched. It looks like a glitch. its never done this before. so I went to preferences and changed fonts to arial but it didnt fix the issue. how do i fix this? 

 

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    Dave Creamer of IDEAS
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 16, 2026

    Did you try to download a new form directly from the IRS?

    This is what I get:

     

    David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
    rachelcenter
    Legend
    July 16, 2026

    I did download a form fresh from the internet, and the screenshot you see is a result of me taking the brand new download and trying to enter text into it via acrobat fill & sign. every few letters looked stretched!