MS Word to Acrobat Font Conversion

Report · Oct 23, 2018

Hello!

I'm been trying to export a document from MS Word to Acrobat 11/Pro DC but whenever it's exported to PDF the font changes to regular fonts such as Times New Roman or Calibri. I'm using both 'Montserrat' (free) and 'Proxima Nova' (purchased) fonts from Typekit as this is the font I would like to use in the PDF but it keeps defaulting back to other fonts.

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When I export by clicking "Save as PDF" and selecting "Best for Printing" the font stays the same but it gets rid of all of my links. So, I need to save it as "Best for electronic distribution" when exporting from MS Word to Acrobat which will allow links to convert over...but as mentioned before if I do this my fonts don't convert over.

Any help or recommendation would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Report · Oct 23, 2018

Hi byungk50062645,

I'm sorry you ran into trouble here. I found this article which seems to have good suggestions https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/libraries/pdf/embed-fonts.pdf

If those don't help, would it be possible to edit the PDF in Acrobat once you export from Word to change the fonts back? I understand this might not be ideal but I have a feeling Acrobat has more options for exporting than Word.

Let me know and we'll take it from there.

Cheers,

Benjamin

Report · Oct 30, 2018

Hi Ben,

Thank you so much for the response and providing a suggestion. Unfortunately, the documented provided did not help.

I can edit the PDF in Acrobat but that would waste too much time as I have hundreds of PDF files I have to work with. Do you have other suggestions by any chance?

Report · Oct 31, 2018

Why aren’t you using Acrobat to make the PDF? It’s well known that Save As PDF in Word has many problems.

Report · Nov 01, 2018

We have our templates in word. Plus, not everyone in the has/uses adobe, so if we have to give the source files of a doc to someone, its works better if we keep it in word.

Report · Nov 01, 2018

Sorry, I wasn't clear. You are right, make them in Word. Acrobat is a TERRIBLE editor.

But you have paid for Acrobat, which adds an ACROBAT ribbon to Word (if your versions are compatible). This is a big part of what you pay for, but you're using Word's built in Save as PDF instead.