Embed font into PDF with Adobe Acrobat

[valeriac45187353]

Hello, 

I've been triyng to embed font into a PDF form created with Acrobat but I am not able too. 

I am following this steps for Adobe: 

1. Find your font. To embed the fonts that are not already embedded, go to File > Print. Bring up the Adobe PDF settings and properties, then Adobe PDF settings.  

I don't have this Adobe PDF settings anywhere in the print window. Can anyone help? 

Thank you 

[Test Screen Name]

There is no way you should be using the Adobe PDF printer with a form. You will lose all the form fields you carefully added. There is no way you should be printing PDF to PDF at all, in fact. Where did you find these instructions?

[valeriac45187353]

This is something I found on Adobe Acrobat website on how to Embed fonts so probably wrong for what I am trying to do. Do you know if it's possible to embed fonts in a PDF form? If I share the PDF form with someone else that doesn't have the font installed, is there any way for them to edit the text with the same font? 

[Test Screen Name]

I think you can add this to the list of bad advice on the internet. But let's look at your issue. Is your concern form fields that you've made (fillable fields anyone can type using Reader), or is it a regular PDF document, with regular text, which happens to be a fillable form?

[valeriac45187353]

It's a PDF form that I made, in the screengrab attached the light blue highlighted are the editable field. Is there any why I can embed fonts here so people editing the field have the same fonts? Thank you 

[Test Screen Name]

Ok, so these are fillable fields. And the people filling it just click and type - they do not choose EDIT in Acrobat?

If so, there is good news - the fonts used for form fields already are embedded, and so everyone using Acrobat Reader should see the same thing. (If that isn't happening, we need to look in that problem - please show screen shots of the problem including the whole app window, not just the form).

[valeriac45187353]

The problem is I can'tguarantee people editing have Acrobat Reader, they could use any softwares to edit this forms and I have no control over that. I don't have expamples of the problem but I know that some people receiving this files can't see some of the fonts, the form just revert to a alternative free font like Arial. 

Also the fonts in my form don't show as embeded on the PDF. 

[Test Screen Name]

If people use software that doesn't work, then there isn't much you can do. Because the fonts ARE embedded - it's just that the software is faulty. (Yes, they do not show as embedded in document properties).

[valeriac45187353]

From my understanding, when fonts are embed it should show here next to the name font, highlighted in this screenbrad but it doesn't so I don't think they are embed, right? Thank you 

[Test Screen Name]

I understand your concern, but this dialog does not correctly show information for form fields. If you want to check this, you should test them with Acrobat Reader on a diferrent machine.

[valeriac45187353]

I tested this on another computer and fonts show differently so I don't think they are embedded. 

[Test Screen Name]

please show screen shots of the problem including the whole app window, not just the form

[valeriac45187353]

There is not screenshoot of the problem, is not like a get an error message. Simply I opened the PDF on a computer where the font wasn't installed and the font has been replaced with a default font so this is different from what I originally imputed on the PDF form. Does it make sense? 

[Test Screen Name]

I need this to be a screen shot showing the problem (the wrong font, the default font) including the whole app window, not just the form (show title, menus, buttons from Acrobat Reader).

[valeriac45187353]

This is ascreengrab of the different ways it looks on different computers. Fonts are clearly different. 

 

 

 

[Test Screen Name]

Thank you. I see the problem in the first screen. I have more questions.

1. Was this PDF edited (filled) by someone else, using different software? Or is this the original file, sent from your computer and just opened in Acrobat on a different computer?

2. Can you share the file (or a simple file with one form field showing the same problem with the "Maria" font) ? 

[valeriac45187353]

This is the original file that I sent and has been just opened with another computer, not filled by someone else. But this person doesn't have the fonts installed so they show differently. It's not only the Maria font, all of them have automatically be reverted to some default font. 

Attached is the original file for you to have look. thank you. 

[Test Screen Name]

Thank you, this file is very interesting. Now I need to compare it with the original. Please also share the file you saved from Acrobat, before it went to any other computer. (Still showing the original font on your computer).

[valeriac45187353]

The one I sent you is the original file, which is the same I shared with the person that opened with a differet computer. There is just one file 🙂 

[Test Screen Name]

Is this the file returned from the person?  

If you don't have the original, please make a form with just one field in the font used for "Maria", and share that.

[Test Screen Name]

Ah, wait. Did you make this form in InDesign, or in Acrobat?

[valeriac45187353]

The one I shared is the original file. Created in Indesign and then the fields to change the text are created in Adobe Acrobat 

[Test Screen Name]

Aha! In your very first post you said "trying to embed font into a PDF form created with Acrobat", but you weren't creating the form with Acrobat, only trying to embed the font with Acrobat. As of 2019, InDesign was making BROKEN forms without embedded fonts. I don't know if there is any progress on this. Good discussion here--

Solved: How to embed fonts in a pdf form ? - Adobe Support Community - 10567326

Any form made in Acrobat embeds fonts (except a few built in ones). Acrobat has no tools to embed fonts in form fields, because this should not exist. My suggestion is to make your PDF files like this

1. static backgrounds in InDesign.

2. export PDF

3. add form fields in Acrobat. (Don't try to fix them in Acrobat, make the PDF without form fields in InDesign).

[valeriac45187353]

Thank you for your help, I will try what you suggested! Trying to get my head around making this work has been a nightmare