Importing New Font

[dazguti]

Can anyone help me figure out how to import a new font from Font Book (on Mac) into Adobe Acrobat?

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

You don't import fonts into Acrobat. Font Book controls the fonts for your entire system, with the exception of those activated from Adobe Fonts through a Creative Cloud subscription.

That being said, there are some fonts native to a Mac that Acrobat has problems "seeing" and those are the .ttc (TrueType Collection) e.g Helvetica Neue. These .ttc fonts contain more than the usual 4 font styles (Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic) and this confuses Acrobat.

Also, if you have recently installed a new font, make sure you've restarted Acrobat so it knows it's there.

[dazguti]

Thank you so much for the reply. It appears to be a "regular" font in my FontBook - it is called SpaceOutOpen Regular. I have restarted Adobe but it still doesn't appear. Any other suggestions?

[dazguti]

It's a .ttf file, not .ttu - I'm not super literate about these things, but that's what I see...

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

I just downloaded and installed this font, and it does show up in my Acrobat (also Mac)

Is it not showing up for you only in Acrobat? (i.e. is it otheriwse availble in other applications?)

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

What is your intent? You shouldn't be using Acrobat to do any major editing. If you just want to do spot edits to an existing PDF that uses that font, that's fine, but for anything else, you should look at a better approach to create your content.

[dazguti]

Thank you for your time! I rebooted my computer and now it is available in Acrobat!