trouble finding a semi bold font in adobe acrobat pdf that says its embedded already

[Oltommykeating]

Hi,

I have a pdf of a menu that needs to be sent to a restaurant. They need to edit it. I used a semibold and when they edit it the text it turns to bold. Obviously not great situation. 

I'm not great at illustrator or acrobat for menus. SO ...here are some pictures ot the document properties in acrobat.  They state that the fonts are embedded subsets. I can use the Typeface as regular, bold, and italic , but when I got to the drop down menu to change it to semi bold I have a problem, it is not there, it only says the type face name - baskerville. It does not even say Baskerville bold or Baskerville italic. 

I'm redoing their previous menu. So I may have copy and pasted from a word document and that screwed everything up? Obvisously need to know asap.

thanks,

in advance. 

[Monika Gause]

You can safely forget that workflow. It won't bring you or the client anywhere and only cause issues and more work for both of you.

[Oltommykeating]

I figured adobe acrobat pro would be a reasonably priced program for a
restaurant to make changes. Instead of asking them to use InDesign ( which
I rarely use ) It's a 7 page menu , I figured Illustrator would be fine.
I'm primarily an illustrator and do design sometimes. I forgot most
of InDesign. I have a few days to figure this out. Any thoughts ? Would
InDesign send them an easy to edit menu? or just another PDF for acrobat?

[Oltommykeating]

I figured adobe acrobat pro would be a reasonably priced program for a restaurant to make changes. Instead of asking them to use InDesign ( which I rarely use ) It's a 7 page menu , I figured Illustrator would be fine. I'm primarily an illustrator and do design sometimes. I forgot most of InDesign. I have a few days to figure this out. Any thoughts ? Would InDesign send them an easy to edit menu? or just another PDF for acrobat?

[Monika Gause]

With InDesign you could probably have them use InCopy.

Maybe you could also check out Adobe Express. The basic version is free. You can design a template and limit which fonts they can use and provide them with the branding and the layout.

I assume they are printing that menu in a copyshop? 

[creative explorer]

@Oltommykeating in your Illustrator document, you can go to the main menu, Type - Find/Replace Font

If you noticed, I can find that missing font it be a simply a space of that Superstar font. I can simply change it to Minion. 

Also, because you are working in Illustrator, it could be an empty text path too. So in that case, I would also clean that you too...Object - Path - Cleanup

I 100% agree with Monika Gause  with making that many changes in a PDF could cause more headaches for them. It's always better if the restaurant just goes back to you to fix. 

In theory, I would select all in the file, and convert the text to be outlines (so it can't be editable), so that they have no choice to contact you to do the changes (revenue).

I also agree with you by copying and pasting from a Word document is likely that issue. I would literally clean that Illustrator file to prevent any font issues that you are experiencing. 

If the client is printing this as a booklet too, the booklet should be 8-pages long so that it can properly print double-sided and you would also have a back page with something on versus being blank

[Oltommykeating]

OMG thank you. I replaced the fonts . I'm going to check it in Acrobat tonight. I think the baskerville font is a Word font and Illustrator uses the same font but a different name: Baskerville URW. I got lucky and Baskerville semibold is now Baskerville URW Bold. I agree the restaurant will probably mess it up. But my friend is the chef so I will help him if he does. If it was anyone else I would charge. 

[Monika Gause]

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@Oltommykeating  schrieb:

But my friend is the chef so I will help him if he does. If it was anyone else I would charge. 

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Just create that menu for him for free. Will most probably be less work.

[Oltommykeating]

Thank you all. I now know I need to make the changes. Not everything is editable in Acrobat. They can change some things but not others. Acrobat is just not a decent editing program. Its very frustrating that I cannot offer a simple editable template . I understand the extra revenue but its not worth it for me personally.  I would rather charge more up front for something easy to change, even just the pricing on the menu. I understand them changing the food every 6 -12 months and rehiring me to redo the menu. But if they want to sub out a item I think there should be a program to do that. Anyway. Thank you.