Arial Unicode MS font not viewable in Adobe Reader 9

Question

I have created a form in Acrobat Acrobat X Pro which has some labels in Arial Unicode MS font and when i view the form in Reader 9, I'm not able to view the labels. I have Arial Unicode MS font installed on my machine. What could be the problem?
                                                                                                           Robin

Answer 1

The use of the Arial Unicode font may seem a simple way to get things done, but in fact this needs enormous care and testing. It will need at least some of the far eastern language packs installed, probably Korean.
For example, the font will need to be installed on each computer where the form is to be filled. This is not a free font, you cannot even buy it, but it comes with Microsoft Office. So only people who have purchased Office will have the font.
I would recommend using a Punjabi font. This should be a properly encoded Unicode font, one which works only on copies of Windows with Punjabi support NOT a "trick" font to work on Western Windows. Even so, Acrobat's support for languages outside western and the "big four" far eastern languages (Chinese x 2, Korean, Japanese) might not be sufficient.