Libre Baskerville Regular incorrectly displays as Italic in PDF form

Question

I have created a PDF form, the text fields in the form have been set as Rich Text so that other users are able to change the typeface, colour, etc.

My issue is that when I try use the Libre Baskerville Regular typeface, on any text field set to Rich text (or that I later set to Rich text), it immediately becomes Italic, and I cannot set it back to Regular.

I have tried removing Libre Baskerville as an embedded font (via Optimize PDF), and even removing that particular typeface from my computer, and yet it still does this.

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Mattchbox · Accepted Answer

Thanks for the reply JR Boulay, after much trial and error, we made some progress. We tried using the OTF version of the font, rather than the TTF we had been embedding, and it seems to be working now: We can edit the fields as rich text, and none of the typefaces swop out to italic unintentionally.

Also, when importing the PDF into different design programs, we often noticed that either the Regular or Italic versions of Libre Baskerville were not recognised at all. Leading us to believe that something is not 100% with the TTF versions of this typeface.

Either way, we have seemingly solved our issue.

Thanks again for the reply.

JR Boulay · Answer

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