Creating Interactive PDFs for Commerical Use

Forum|Forum|11 months ago
April 2, 2025
2 replies
432 views

Hello, I've been asked to create Interactive PDF documents for commerical use and am using adobe fonts in them how to I ensure i am compliant with the Adobe fonts licencing? Do I embed the fonts into the document and then password protect the editing? Also if I end my adobe subscription would my client need to get a subscription in order to continue selling the documents?

Any help is greatly appriciated!

TᴀW

Legend

Note that if you are using InDesign's Buttons and Forms panel to set the font of form fields, those fonts will not be properly embedded in the final PDF. So if the end-user doesn't have the fonts installed, they won't be able to use your fonts to enter data in form fields on the final PDF.

To properly embed fonts, you would need to select the font for each field in Acrobat rather than InDesign, or use FormMaker (which would allow you to choose the font in InDesign).

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Any fonts that have the flag to allow embedding, are legal embedded. All Adobe fonts allow embedding in PDFs. So it is not a problem.

M

MetalBankaiAuthor

Participating Frequently

Thank you, However if I end my subscription to creative cloud, would my client need to get a subscription in order to keep selling the pdfs?

TᴀW

Legend

If the fonts have been properly embedded in the PDFs, they're there, and nobody would need a subscription to be able to continue seeing the PDF as you intended.

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded