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2007-02-07 04:05:57
ranbright81463
Registered: Feb 7 2007
Posts: 2

I am a realtor and our forms come up as PDF's for us to edit the fields and print out the forms. Recently, I have encountered a problem that it will prompt me that I do not have a certain font, for instance, "some characters might not display properly, the font "Courier" could not be found". I cant even edit the fields. How do I fix this? The fonts are in my system fonts and in the other font folders??>>>!! HELP!please

My Product Information:
Reader 7.0.2, Windows
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2007-02-07 11:45:21
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tedpadova
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Registered: Dec 31 2005
Posts: 848
I'm going to have to make a few assumptions to provide an answer. First, I'm assuming when you say you're editing text fields, you're really editing text on the background with the TouchUp Text tool and not editing a form field. Secondly, I'm assuming you don't have or don't have access to the original file created in the authoring program (something like the original MS Word file) and you must make edits on the form as a PDF. If all of this is true... read on.

The why is beacuse the fonts you are trying to edit are embedded in the document. You may have a different version of Courier than what was used when the original document was created. As such, you cannot unembed the fonts and therefore won't be able to edit using the TouchUp Text tool just by selecting the text and typing over it.

You can first try a simple workaround and see if this works for you. Select the text you want to edit with the TouchUp Text tool and open a context menu. Select Properties and open the text properties. From the Font pull-down menu, try to select a version of Courier from your system fonts and see if the font can be changed. If so, you're home free and can now edit the font. You'll need to do this with each block of text you want to edit.

If this doesn't work, you can try to edit the text as an object. From a context menu opened from selecting text with the TouchUp Object tool (different tool), select Edit Object. You need to have an object editor such as Adobe Illustrator installed on your system. If Illustrator is installed, you can edit the text in Illustrator. When you save the Illustrator file, the PDF document is dynamically updated. (Be sure to use Save and not Save As).

A third option is to use the Redaction tools in Acrobat 8 to remove text you highlight. After removing text, select the TouchUp Text tool and press the Ctrl key (Win) or the Option key (Mac) to insert a cursor where you can add type.

If all of this is too complicated and/or too cumbersome, you might see if you can get your files sent to you without font embedding. That will take a little doing to inform your source how to send you files without fonts embedded.

ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.

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