I have a fillable PDF document where i need to type a few words in my native language Armenian. Currently i am using Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.
My OS is Windows 7.
Any advise is appreciated.
It depends on whether the font used for the field does support characters specific for the Armenian language. If it does, you should be able to enter them. If not, you can't, because you can not change the font of a text field using Reader.
So, in order to change the font, you would need a PDF editing tool, preferably Acrobat (Standard or Pro), and you will also need a font supporting Armenian which allows to be fully embedded.
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I'm programming to convert a file to pdf on mac, file contains a Chinese text
using a font STFangsong which has license restriction and is not embeddable, I
tried many CMaps to encode it, but it seems the root cause is because pdf viewer(both
mac previewer and acrobat reader) does not recognize the font, as shown in the pdf
file properties, Actual Font Unknown and there is a pop message says can't find or
create the font.
The PDF 32000-1:2008 9.6.6.4 tells a guideline that when encoding truetype font,
the font program should be embedded, though no specific explanation, from my
understanding, embedding can guarantee the pdf is readable everywhere, but I do not
need this since the font is licensed, I just want it can be shown on my computer.
So my question here is does those pdf viewer has limitation on those CJK characters
when embedding is forbidden?
By the way, I used Microsoft word to write a text with the font and save word to
pdf, and it shows the font is embedded subset, does it mean Microsoft have bought the
license?
I would like to show a message to the user displaying the pdf reader name. Is there any pdf javascript that can show the reader name (eg: Adobe Acrobat or Nitro Pro)?
Not all pdf viewers support JavaScript and the ones that do, do so in varying degrees so this won't work in all applications but...
app.alert(app.viewerType+" "+app.viewerVersion);
... is intended to show which viewer application and version is running. In Adobe tools, the return values will be "Reader", "Exchange", "or "Exchange-Pro". "Exchange" was the original name of Acrobat so the last two are for Acrobat Standard and Acrobat Pro.
I made a PDF file from Latex (using TexMaker).
Acrobat Reader is able to display BOTH the text and the table of contents in Linux.
But Acrobat Reader is unable to display the table of contents in Windows XP (the Chinese characters came out as boxes). However, the text is displayed correctly.
I tried to embed the fonts into the PDF but the various methods are not 100% successful, so I'm not sure if the fonts are embedded correctly or not. Anyway, the table of contents remain unreadable in Windows.
I wonder if it is really an font embedding problem? Or do I need to install these "Adobe Reader X Font Packs":
https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4883
My concern is that I'd like my PDF to be readable in Windows, including the table of contents (and preferably without further installations). If this is possible...
I suspect you are talking about "bookmarks" and not saying part of the text in the document is ok and part is not. PDF Bookmarks are part of the UI of the application and are not selected from embedded fonts. Therefore, the system you are running on needs to know how to handle fonts in the language(s) of choice.
See https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1144972?start=0&tstart=0
Embedding the fonts will have no effect on the bookmarks.
I'm a converting my Word document into pdf using the built-in microsoft office converter (save as--> pdf).
I want my pdf to be protected (users cannot copy text from it). i can't seem to find any options for this when converting to pdf.
Any hint?
Thanks.
Found it, Can be done with Adobe Acrobat Professional, not the Acrobat Reader.
PDF, or portable document format, forms were created by Adobe as a form of universal file format. Adobe Acrobat Reader, which allows you to view PDF files, is available for free download. Unfortunately, to manipulate documents and perform functions like changing security settings, you must have the full Adobe Acrobat software. With it, you can create secure PDFs, but you can also change security settings on PDF forms.
You can use export to PDF feature in LibreOffice, just set permission password and then disable Content Copying.
I am having problems creating PDF documents with fully embedded True Type fonts. I am printing from MS Word (and Indesign) to the Adobe 9.0 print driver. I can get .otf fonts to embed with no problem, but .ttf files will not embed. Is it possible to fully (not subset) embed these fonts? I am specifically having problems using WingDings. With other fonts, I have been able to find and purchase .otf versions and use those, but it does not appear that wingdings is available in this format and I do not know of another way to fully embed bullets (both sqaure and round).
The license for WingDings doesn't appear to allow you to fully embed them -- or too look at it another way, Acrobat doesn't appear to believe that it can fully embed them (and so subsets them instead). I'm not a copyright lawyer, so I'm not sure precisely what's allowed here, but here's some info that might help.
Install the font properties extension from Microsoft. This will give you much more information on the fonts properties. Once it's installed right-click on a WingDings font and and click on the 'Embedding' tab. You'll see this message:
"Embeddability for this font: Editable embedding allowed.
Editable embedding allowed: fonts may be embedded in documents, but must only be installed
temporarily on the remote system."
Then read this article from Adobe about Embedding Permissions. And this forum discussion might be of some use too.
I tried print a Word document which included WingDings to the Adobe PDF printer driver (Acrobat 8) and not matter which settings I tried, I was unable to get it to fully embed the font.
My guess is that Adobe interpret "Editable embedding allowed" to mean that you can only embed characters for the font which were included in the original document (i.e. embedded subset) and they are also the only ones which you can edit in the PDF.
I would try adding an additional page to the document that included every character in the font. Then use a different (non-Adobe) tool to delete that page. I don't have Windows so I can't tell you specifically how to do it. I can only tell you that I've used these kinds of tricks on other systems.