Fonts missing when editing

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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.

Dov IsaacsCorrect answer

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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)