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roma31
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December 15, 2020
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Fonts missing when editing

  • December 15, 2020
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I open a PDF document to edit it.

Teh whole document is written using AlbanyWTIC font. I try to edit and it switches to a Minion font. I try to select the AlbanyWTIC font and it is not available in the list of the fonts.

What a mess guys, what a mess! 

Can you get something working smoothly instead of pushing out two dozens softwares each carrying a bucket of problems?

Help would be really appreciated.

Correct answer Dov Isaacs

One of the requirements for editing text within a PDF file using the font in which that text is formatted is that you must have a copy of that font installed on your computer system, regardless of whether the font is embedded in the PDF file. (There are both legal and technical reasons for that!)

 

Thus if your PDF file's text is using the AlbanyWTIC font, then in order to edit that text in Acrobat, you need to have the AlbanyWTIC font installed on your system. If you don't have that font installed, it will switch to a default font.

 

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Dov Isaacs
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December 15, 2020

One of the requirements for editing text within a PDF file using the font in which that text is formatted is that you must have a copy of that font installed on your computer system, regardless of whether the font is embedded in the PDF file. (There are both legal and technical reasons for that!)

 

Thus if your PDF file's text is using the AlbanyWTIC font, then in order to edit that text in Acrobat, you need to have the AlbanyWTIC font installed on your system. If you don't have that font installed, it will switch to a default font.

 

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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roma31Author
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December 16, 2020

Hello Dov and thanks for your answer.

Now believe it or not I could not find that font anywhere: I have checked any other reasonalble application I had on my laptop (Adobe/MicrosoftOffice/Corel), nothing!

I ended up downloading it from a website, installing it then shutting down and on again adobe and it was finally there.

My question would be: if Adobe has recognized a font and formatted the text following that how comes it cannot show it in the list of available fonts?

Misteries of Adobe...

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roma31Author
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December 16, 2020

Bad news. I checked the font. It is pirated!

 

This particular font file originated from Agfa-Monotype and you have no right to install and/or use it either personally or commerically.

 

Interestingly enough, the font is setup to totally disallow any font embedding. I suspect that the PDF files you received used a different version of this font (one that allowed embedding) or a different PDF creator (that ignores embedding restrictions).

 

Sorry! 😞

 


Well, it means I will have to remove it from my machine...

Embeddable or not it worked for me!

 

As a kind suggestion I would invite Adobe to find a workaround for that "ghost" font issue: if it is reproduced on the editable pdf either it should be available for use or it is not reasonable to leave the user "in underpants"; all the user wants is just editing the pdf in a consistent manner without a different font from the one that is already detected and reproduced.

 

Good night Dov and thanks again.

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