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September 12, 2016
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How do I embed a custom font into a PDF form field?

  • September 12, 2016
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I work for a company that owns a license to our logo font. We're trying to create fillable form fields in Adobe Acrobat PDFs that use our font, but I keep getting a message that the font license won't allow it to be embedded. Is there any way around this issue?

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try67
Community Expert
September 12, 2016

You need to contact the font foundry and ask them for an embeddable version.

New Participant
September 13, 2016

Thank you! Ok, I contacted the font foundry and they sent a license agreement that indicates that the version we already have embeddable (and yet it won't embed in a fillable PDF). Is there anything else I could be missing?

Inspiring
September 13, 2016

The font has to allow at least editable embedding. For a description on the various type of embedding permissions that are possible, see: Adobe - Fonts : Font Permissions

So your font will have to be configured for either editable or installable embedding for it to be used with a form field. This is something that needs to be done in the font editing software and they'll have to generate a new font file for you to use.