Allandnone font

[Mermaid911]

Hello, I have long documents that use allandnone font. This font does not seem to be availble on Acrobat. Is there any way to get it or purchase it please? No other font is close enough. Thank you.

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse · Accepted solution]

It's not actually a font of its own. Whatever program created your PDF embedded a subset of ALL the characters in your document and lumped them together in a fake set called All And None, with it's own custom encoding. It can actually be any font or any combinations of fonts of any weight in the same embedding.

Based on your screen grab, yours is a subsetted Arial. Use that.

[JudiD]

How to convert allandnone in Acrobat Pro? 
I'm looking to replace it, or 'unpack' it.

[AnandSri]

Hello Judi!

I hope you are doing well, and thanks for reaching out.

​The "AllAndNone" font appearing in your PDF indicates that the document contains text without a standard, embedded font. This placeholder font is often used when the original font is missing, improperly embedded, or the text is part of a scanned image or vector graphic. "AllAndNone" is not an actual font but a placeholder name assigned by Acrobat when it cannot identify or access the original font used in the document.

• Check Font Embedding:

  • Open the PDF in Acrobat.

  • Navigate to File > Properties > Fonts tab.

  • Verify if the fonts are listed and embedded. If not, the text may not be editable.​

• Use OCR for Scanned Documents:

  • If the PDF is a scan, use Acrobat's OCR feature:

    • Go to All Tools > Scan & OCR > Recognize Text.

    • This will convert the image-based text into editable text.

Contact the Document Creator:

• If possible, request a new version of the PDF with fonts properly embedded.

To learn more about embedding fonts in a PDF, see this article: https://adobe.ly/4iEdXyP

I hope this helps.

Thanks,

Anand Sri.

[JudiD]

Thank you  AnandSri. It isn't a scan, so Scan & OCR won't work. And, looks like a combination of embeded fonts and allandnone, so perhaps I will have to ask the client for pdfs without the merged font, and to maintain the unicode. Unless someone has a solution otherwise, please do let me know! 

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

" I will have to ask the client for pdfs without the merged font"

They probably can't. The allandnone tends to happen when using utilities to combine and optimize PDFs that are not "typical" e.g. like some third-party PDF editors, or some of the "converters" online. It tends to be a cumulative effect. Unfortunately, there is no practical way to fix the allandnone after the fact. Since it can be a mix of many fonts in one subset, even if the majority of it was, say Arial, you can't do an effective find and replace without affecting other fonts. What you CAN do is find where the allandnone is being used (assuming you have full Acrobat) in the file by going to Print Production > Preflight (doesn't matter what Profile is selected) > Inventory > Fonts, then review the resulting report. It will show you all the embedded fonts used  and the actual glyphs stored in each subset, and on what pages they appear. You will probably see a glyph set for allandnone that has more than just one font in it.

 

 If you don't need to do any editing, and the allandnone is causing isssue, obvioulsy you can just outline the fonts using a Preflight Profile

[JudiD]

I got all that and the full Acrobat, and it is genious. But can't have outlines. I am more looking to convert CID type 0 to something useable on the fly. Not sure how to do that.

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

"I am more looking to convert CID type 0 to something useable on the fly."

Not sure what you are trying to accomplish. In general, no, you can't. You will have custom encodings, so this would be unusable outside of the purpose of the PDF which is to print/display the objects in it. As far as allandnone, if this is all you have in your document (according o your screen grab), the degree symbol and one space., you can probably switch that to almost any standard font; although because of the custom encoding, you will need to retype a degree symbol, otherwise you will get a "box" or other gibberish.