Since I tried to write to Adobe but they don't care about their free products and I was directed to this forum, I will rant here.
There is a feature of Acrobat Reader that allows to fill documents that were created even without user interaction in mind.
The "Fill and Sign" feature creates its own Acroforms to allow you to enter text.
Wow, how neat! It even has an ability to switch between normal and comb text fields with monospaced fonts. How cool!
So you click and start filling. You immediately see the beautiful sans-serif font characters appear on the screen.
How convenient, how easy, how time-saving!
But then, if you are a victim of The Fate and you belong to the 6.5 billion people on this planet that use any language other than English you will foolishly attempt to insert a character that isn't a standard English alphabet character.
Suddenly, the beautiful sans-serif font disappears and it changes to some ugly serifed font that is just one notch below Papryus (it goes very well with the rest of your tax return's design). The horror!
But "no problem!" you think, you will just change the font back. After all, even the default sans-serif font of the operating system has thousands of glyphs (even stupid Arial supports god only knows how many languages).
Oh wait! You won't! Because YOU CAN NOT CHANGE THE FONT FAMILY!
Even this dumb form I'm typing right now has the ability to do that, but not the program!
So Adobe has added an incredibly useful feature.
And then purposefully made it impossible to use it. That's lame.
Just say up-front that you want users to buy fully-featured Acrobat and stop this Reader bull----.
I swear, with every year and with every additional "functions" and incompleted programs the Adobe's software is becoming even bigger and bigger POS.
Have a nice day!
Kacper
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