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Font changing when creating PDF from Word

New Here ,
Mar 27, 2017 Mar 27, 2017

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Hi,

When I create a PDF document from word, the font Times New Roman is getting changed to Times Roman.

Here I use the Acrobat Pro Dc for my conversion of word to PDF.

 

I found a similar blog Times New Roman in Word documents changes to TimesNewRomanPSMT in PDF documents (Create PDF)  explaining the problem.

 

Is there any solution to overcome this problem?

 

Can someone please help?

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Community Expert , Mar 21, 2018 Mar 21, 2018

In Word go to the Acrobat ribbon and click on Preferences. Select the Conversion Settings profile you want to use and then click on Advanced Settings. Switch to the Fonts section and tick "Embed all fonts" (if it's not ticked already). If you want, save the profile under a new name and then use it when converting your file to a PDF.

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LEGEND ,
Nov 25, 2021 Nov 25, 2021

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To be clear, this isn't Adobe support. You can't talk to Adobe support because you aren't paying for an Adobe product.

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 25, 2021 Nov 25, 2021

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Thanks so much for your useful advice.

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New Here ,
Mar 17, 2023 Mar 17, 2023

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I have met this Font changes probem, too  when I create PDF from Word. I checked my PDF option and I have checked the option"embedded all font" but it doesn't work. I found in the list below to embed font from C/Window/Fonts, some fonts are missing.

 

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New Here ,
Sep 13, 2023 Sep 13, 2023

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I don't know why users have to go to such extraordinary lengths to simply convert a Word Doc to PDF, but here is what I had to do after none of these suggestions worked for me. I had to upload the Word Doc to SharePoint, then open/download the Word Doc as a PDF. This made it look exactly like the original Word Doc. I hope this helps someone. And I wish both developers would consider user experience a bit more.

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New Here ,
Dec 05, 2023 Dec 05, 2023

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Thank you SO MUCH this is literally the only thing that has worked for me

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New Here ,
Dec 05, 2023 Dec 05, 2023

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Yay! Happy this helped someone. I was really spinning my wheels.

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Participant ,
Oct 12, 2023 Oct 12, 2023

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I can't convert docx to pdf with preserving style and font in ANY of the ways I've found. Something is always different! How is this possible???

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Community Beginner ,
Jun 19, 2024 Jun 19, 2024

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None of the given solutions were working for me and I FINALLY figured out how to make the fonts stay as a PDF. I am on a MacOS Monterey. I had the word document opened, then I went to "Word" on the top left toolbar, clicked "Preferences". Then I clicked "Save" under Output and Sharing. Then under Font Embedding I checkmarked "Embed fonts in the file". I hope this helps!

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New Here ,
Aug 14, 2024 Aug 14, 2024

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A bit late to the party on this one but I was having the same issue. Tried on my phone and 2 computers, finally came across this and the PRINT TO PDF option worked for me! Phew.

Hope this helps others
https://www.pdfgear.com/pdf-converter/how-to-convert-word-to-pdf-without-changing-font.htm

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New Here ,
Aug 26, 2024 Aug 26, 2024

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I have a word document with mostly Arial 10 point font. Both in Word > Options and in the PDF settings I've selected to embed fonts. When I convert the document to PDF the font size changes to 10.02 and sometime 9.96. I can not seem to fix this challenge. Like others below we have strict font sizing requirements. Any suggestions would be helpful

 

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Adobe Employee ,
Sep 13, 2024 Sep 13, 2024

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Hi @Valerie5CA4,

 

Hope you are doing well. Sorry for your experience with Acrobat!

 

You might want to change the below setting and check if it works:

In the Acrobat Ribbon, go to preferences-> Advanced Settings and change the below-

1. Go to General-> Toggle the dropdown for Object Level Compression to "Off."

2. Now, go to Fonts-> toggle the checkbox for Embed OpenType Fonts.

 

 

Also, you might want to Default Page Size if that aligns to your requirement.

 

Hope this helps.


-Souvik

Community & Social Consultant | Document Cloud | Adobe

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