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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...

Dov Isaacs
Dov Isaacs
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December 16, 2020

I couldn't find a font by that name (Albany WTIC) anywhere. Where did you find it? Was it truly a “free font” that you were able to download? Many fonts available on the web are actually pirated.

 

In any case, if your PDF file has a subset of the font embedded within it, Adobe Acrobat and other PDF readers can display the text using that font. But as I previously wrote, the fact that the font is embedded in the PDF file is not sufficient to allow it to be used for editing. The font must actually be installed on your system for that purpose.

 

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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