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What Font Is Used In A 'Print Comments Summary'?

peterdh
Registered: May 27 2008
Posts: 5
Answered

Here's the background: I have a PDF file that contains text in the Adobe Myriad Pro - Open Type Pro Font. This text contains some special symbols like copyright and registration marks.

If I add a Sticky Note to this PDF and then copy some of the existing text into the Sticky Note, all is well. The special symbols appear correctly. I believe that this is because my comment preferences are also set to use Myriad Pro for viewing comments.

If I then display the comment at the bottom of the screen, again it appears correctly.

However, if I 'Print Comments / Create PDF of Comments Summary', the text in the resulting PDF is unreliable. Also, the font used in the resulting PDF changes depending on the particular workstation. Not all of the resulting fonts support the special symbols - hence the problem.

My question is 'How does Acrobat 7 or 8 Pro determine which font to use in a Comments Summary PDF'? A second question would then be 'How do I change it'?

Thanks much for any information you can provide.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1.2, Windows
rhickey
Registered: Sep 27 2007
Posts: 84
Here's a quick way to directly inspect the font used in any PDF...

Use the Create PDF of Comments Summary in the comments panel to generate the comment summary PDF. Next, select the TouchUp Text tool from the Advanced editing tools. Now, Select the font character in question and right click, choose properties, select the text tab...now you will see which font is being used for the character in question. You will see the display & original font listed ...it will alert you to any substitution issues.
peterdh
Registered: May 27 2008
Posts: 5
Hi Rhickey, Thanks much for the information. Can you possibly shed any further light on the subject?

My question remains 'How does Acrobat 7 or 8 Pro determine which font to use in a Comments Summary PDF'? Is it using a Windows setting?

On some stations, it uses Arial or ArialMT or Tahoma or SimSun........

A second question would then be 'How do I cause it to use a different font'?

Thanks again!
rhickey
Registered: Sep 27 2007
Posts: 84
"My question remains 'How does Acrobat 7 or 8 Pro determine which font to use in a Comments Summary PDF'? Is it using a Windows setting?"

Hmmm...
I don't know the answer to this. I may research deeper if/when I have more time, but for now I'm coming up blank.

"On some stations, it uses Arial or ArialMT or Tahoma or SimSun........"
For the XP I happen to be on now it uses Arial
I may check on the Vista and Mac OS 10.x later.

Perhaps someone else may have the answer.