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Fonts in Designer

HearingHouse
Registered: Jul 18 2007
Posts: 6

I have created a form in Designer using a font called Trubetzkoy for some characters. When preview the form as a pdf and when I save the form as a pdf the Trubetzkoy characters do now show. To test that the font worked in a PDF, I created a PDF using the font in Microsoft Word and the characters did display. It is only when I preview the PDF in Designer or save my form as PDF in designer that the font is not displayed. For this reason, I think that it is something that I am doing wrong in Designer. The font is in my list of fonts in my control panel. It is not in my list of fonts in Designer. I read the help information in Acrobat and it mentioned that creating a PostScript file first and then a PDF from Distiller can find any errors. However, I can not see the option to create a PostScript file in Designer.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 7.0.0, Windows
lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
Hi HearingHouse,

Per Carl Young's Tip at:
[url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/pdftrainer/2007/03/02/adobe-livecycle-designer-8-improvements/]http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/pdftrainer/2007/03/02/adobe-livecycle-designer-8-improvements/[/url]
"Designer cannot embed Type 1 fonts, even though Distiller will embed those fonts without a problem. The reason has to do with the lack of explicit font embedding permissions in older Type 1 fonts."

You can create a Postscipt file by selecting the "Print to File" box in the Designer Print menu. However, you'll need to place your form fields on this newly created PDF.

Hope this helps,
Lori

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.