Adding Fonts to Acrobat

Question

I use Acrobat Pro on an iMac. I need to edit the text on PDF I received from a colleague. The pdf uses Calibri font, but that does not appear in my list of fonts for text editing. Calibri is installed in MS Office, but does not appear in the Font Book app.

How do I add Calibri (or other common fonts) to Acrobat?

Thanks for your help.

Brad @ Roaring Mouse · Accepted Answer

"Calibri should be avialble in that document for edits IF the font was embedded during the PDF construction"

Not true. An embedded font is normally subsettted and will not contain an entire font set, and in most cases cannot be used for editing. Some PDF editors (like Pitstop) CAN use an embedded subset as long as you don't need any character not included in that subset, and if the licensing allows it, otherwise you require to have the font on your system to edit.

To answer @Peter258508972yae , Calibri is not a normally installed Mac font, but if you have Office on your computer, it has its own fonts from in a "hidden" folder. You can find these fonts and copy them into your Font Book. Click on your Word application icon, and right-click to Show Package Contents. Within the Resources folder is a folder called DFonts. You will find the Calibri TT fonts there.

gary_sc · Answer

Calibri is made by Microsoft. It's fonts can be used by other applications on your computer, but are not directly available to add to programs like Acrobat. However, if you create a document in Word (or InDesign for that matter) using Calibri and PDF that document, Calibri should be avialble in that document for edits IF the font was embedded during the PDF construction.

What happens when you make edits in that document? Is it substituting something obviously different?

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