Mixed fonts in Acrobat Reader

I need to read a PDF that contains both English and Chinese characters. Is this possible. Right now it seems like it's one or the other.

It will read whatever the creator of the file used if it was created properly. If they use Chinese, you will see Chinese. English, you will see English. Both...both.

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Japanese Fonts for Acrobat Reader X

With the older versions of Acrobat Reader to view a document that had both english and japanese fonts you had to install an extra font pack for the language that the additional fonts used. With Reader X I see there is a MUI for the Japanese version but I am using the english (US) version and want to view PDF files that have japanese fonts. Do I need to install additional font pack? If so where do I download it? If not how do I configure the reader app to view the fonts?

Hi,
Assuming that you have installed Reader MUI on an English OS, you will need to install the additional Japanese Font Pack to view any Japanese PDF (From the location mentioned in ssway's post). Reader MUI simplifies the process of installing different language versions of Reader by providing you with a single installer for the same.
The below link sheds more information on the same:
http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/faq.html#
Hope this helps
Ankit

SWF Export, no font showing in Acrobat and zoom border problem (Acrobat & Reader) - Indesign CS6

Hi Everyone,
If anyone could help me on this that would be great, I've spent hours on the forums and manuals to no avail.
I'm making an interactive PDF brochure in Indesign for one of our new products and I'm having issues (actual or perceived??!!) with the SWF export and PDF creation. I'm placing animations and video in the INDD, exporting it as an SWF (with the text option as Flash Classic Text) and then opening the SWF (not importing to a word doc or anything, just opening the SWF) with Acrobat using the advanced options to import the video resources and to enable the content when the page is opened. I then save the file as a PDF. In the PDF everything works as it should, the animations, the buttons, the video plays and so on. Great.. hmm not quite.
The trouble I am having is that all the content of the SWF when viewed in Acrobat seems to be getting rasterised/flattened - is this correct? After the SWF is opened, Acrobat indicates no fonts in the fonts tab in the document properties so when the SWF is zoomed in Acrobat, or the saved PDF in Reader, the font gets pixelated and the document is not searchable/text can not be highlighted. The images are not selectable either - it is as if the entire page has been flattened to one image. Is there a way to stop this so that the SWF opened with Acrobat retains the font and individual images like a normal PDF? Do I have to open the SWF in Flash first to set some parameters or something? Is there something I am doing wrong when exprting the SWF from Indesign? I think I have tried about every possible export combination. When I open the .HMTL (exported at the same time as the SWF from Indesign) in a browser, the same happens. All the animations work but the text appears to be rasterised/flattened/not searchable. Sorry if I'm not using the correct terminology.
I have tried importing the SWF back into another new INDD and exporting that as an interactive PDF but then the video does not work. I suppose I could try exporting all the individual animations as SWFs, importing them all and trying to get them to work with the video but I can see that will take quite some time and does not seem to be a guaranteed solution from what I have read on the forums - video playback being the issue.
Another problem is that when the SWF, or saved PDF, is zoomed in Acrobat/Reader between approx 150% and 210% a thick white border appears in the document and the content is squashed into the middle creating a slightly pixelated and narrow page. When I zoom out from the page I get a small white line on the right hand border at around 70% zoom. Please see images. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening and what I can do to fix it?
On another, sort of related topic, my timing panel went blank yesterday and was not showing any animations in documents that it had been used to order and synch animations on page load as well as new documents. The panel was blank. I updated to V8.0.1 and the panel sprang back into life - hope that helps anyone else finding the same problem.
I am not very familiar with Indesign/Acrobat/Flash so I guess all the above could be what I'm doing or I could be asking really dumb questions - apologies from a newbie.
Best,
Emily

Hi All,
I have now pretty much solved all the issues by creating the SWF in Flash rather than Indesign. I would advise anyone looking to create an interative PDF with animation and interactivity to go with Flash from the start. While Flash is a little more involved to create the same effects as Indesign, the extra time taken will ensure a more controllable and better looking PDF in terms of text quality, scalability and so on. Plus you will not spend days trying to get video to work along side imported SWF etc in Indesign. One of the best controls in Flash is being able to set the stage.scaleMode for the document so the PDF still looks crisp when zooming, no white borders etc. So, create the .fla, export to .SWF, open the .SWF with Acrobat, modify the advanced settings to enable start on page load and save as a PDF. If you don't know Flash, I didn't a couple of days ago, watch a couple of tutorials on Youtube.. buttons, tweens, embedding video and you'll be ready. Don't be put off by ActionScript, there are really handy Code Snippets in CS6 that do all the heavy lifting for you.
Sorry Indesign!
Best,
Em

Acrobat Reader 9 does not display Type 3 fonts correctly

Acrobat Reader 9 does not display Type 3 fonts correctly for quite a few of our older, PDF version 1.2 PDF files in our products, where normal Acrobat or Digital Editions show no such problem. It only shows the bottom part of the glyphs but then shifted to the top of the glyph area.
Files available for test/reference upon request.
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Hmm, this cannot be, as this is legacy material from 1997. There is no way that this can be changed using Type 1 or OTF fonts other than retypesetting everything from scratch, I fear, and that will be just too much expensive work. Interestingly, Acrobat Reader 8 and the latest Adobe Digital Editions display these PDFs correctly, so I have no alternative other than assume that the changes in the font rendering mechanism in Reader 9 are responsible for this. I am checking these files with Acrobat 9 Professional shortly...
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How to get collection of embeded fonts using plugins in acrobat reader?

I am trying to create a plugin for acrobat reader to display embedded fonts on opened document and will do business logic afterward, but not sure whats the method to get the collection of embedded fonts.
Please give me example of code snippet how to get collection of embedded fonts of opened document.
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PDDocEnumFonts() will enumerate the fonts in a document for you. You will have to look at each font to determine if it's embedded or not.
Don't forget that to build a plugin for Reader, you need a license from Adobe.

Print dialog font is too small: Acrobat Reader on Linux

I'm running Acrobat Reader version 7.0.5 on CentOS 4.5 (RedHat Enterprise
4.5) and find that the fonts used on the Print dialog are too small.
They are much smaller than the fonts used on labels and other controls
in the rest of the application, and are very difficult to read. By
comparison, they seem to be about 1/2 the size of the font used by the
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I've gone through the Edit -> Preferences, but don't see anything which
will change the size of the fonts used on this dialog.
Is there a configuration file or some other way that I can increase the
size of these fonts?
Thanks,

the issue occurs on systems running debian-etch, debian-etch'n-half,
debian-lenny, and gentoo with xdm as display manager and fvwm as
window manager. the x-server runs with the '-dpi 75' option regardless of
the screen's physical dimensions. the screen's resolution is 1600x1200.
for me it looks like acroread is creating it's dialog boxes independently
from gtk-settings in $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 (apart from the OK/Cancel buttons of
the printing dialog) and while doing so, it makes wrong assumptions about
the font-size by using the dpi setting of the screen to calulate the physical
dimention of the screen. if the x-server is running with '-dpi 100' the
dialog fonts are considerably bigger, but still differs from the settings
in $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0. for example when you make setting of
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then you don't get neither Verdana nor 24pt fonts in the whole acroread
gui except for the menubar and the OK/Cancel buttons of the printing
dialog, while any other gtk-program like firefox, thunderbird, and others
apprear completely in Verdana 24pt -- which is of course far too big, but
illustrated the issue very clearly.
screenshots (with gtk-fonts set to Verdana 24pt and Tahoma 11pt) are
inserted below. (as you can see, the printing dialog and advanced printing
dialog even use different fonts.)
thank you very much for the very quick reply.

Changing Default Font in Acrobat 7 and/or Acrobat Reader 9

Anyone know how to change the Default Font in Acrobat 7 and/or Acrobat Reader 9? Whenever I open a PDF document the text defaults to a Times New Roman or basic font. Can we change the default font?

The fonts are defined as part of the created PDF. If you mean something else, then please explain. A PDF is designed to replicate the document it was created from and thus the fonts are defined by the originating document. If you do not have the font and it is not embedded, then Acrobat tries to find a close version to substitute.

Default Font in Acrobat 7 and/or Acrobat Reader 9

Anyone know how to change the Default Font in Acrobat 7 and/or Acrobat Reader 9? Whenever I open a PDF document the text defaults to a Times New Roman or basic font. Can we change the default font?

No. The font is determine by the person that created the pdf.

Acrobat Reader 8.1.2 linux - font problem

Hi,
I create pdf files through latex (pdflatex). These files contain some graphs.
kpf would display the document correctly, text and graphs, while acroread would complain about "cannot find or create the font ArialMT".
The problem is that some characters and numbers in the graphs displays as big dots.
I think all the necessary fonts are installed (msttcorefonts) as I see them in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts) and kpf runs ok.
Is it a matter of path with acrobat reader?
any suggestion is very much appreciated.
thanks in advance
mirko

Hello,
Please set ACRO_ENABLE_FONT_CONFIG=1, in order for Adobe Reader to pick up fonts added through font-config. You could also try setting PSRESOURCEPATH=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts on console.
Also, you could set ACRO_ENABLE_FONT_CONFIG in acroread script itself.Search for "ACRO_ENABLE_FONT_CONFIG", uncomment the relevant section,and save the script.Acroread would now be able to use these fonts, without you having to set any variable before launching it.
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Fonts issue with Acrobat Reader 9

We have recently pushed Acrobat Reader 9 in our environment on Windows XP Pro. One of user reported a strange issue, he is opening a PDF file in Acrobat Reader 9 but he is getting half fonts all across the document but if we are opening the same file in Reader 7 we can see complete fonts, also at the same time if we copy and paste them in MS Word or notepad we are getting complete fonts. I have observed that in Reader 9 one option is missing that we have in Reader 7 i.e, "use local fonts" under Documents menu, but not sure if this is the reason behind the issue.
Please refer to attached screenshot.
Please help/suggest.
Thanks in advance
Vikas

The option 'use local fonts' is available in Adobe Reader 9.

I am using Acrobat Reader 11.0.10 . I cant print mixed originals and also I cannot print letter size correctly . printing of first two pages ok but the rest gets cut off at the top

How can I print from MAC with Acrobat Reader. I can't seem to get it to print correctly , first two pages of letter size works ok after the remaining pages get moved up and the printing is cut off.

I arrived here looking for a solution! And while reading your post the penny dropped that I didn't have a serious problem. I have a booklet of 112 pages and all I needed to do was re-order the pages as printed so that 1 is followed by a sheet with 2 on the under-face but same side and so on. The pages had printed back to front and needed flipping. But then I have a duplex printer and maybe that makes a difference. Is it to do with your manual duplexing and the order that the second pass is presented to the printer. As my duplex sheets effectively needed flipping over each one I'm wondering if you can solve your problem with a little experimentation and re-ordering before your second pass.

Need advise on a problem one of my customer have with properties going missing in Acrobat Reader

Hi there.
I need some advise on a major problem I got with acrobat reader on one of my customer's laptop.
I might not have all the informations, but I can explain about everything that I could dig out of the problem.
One of my customer asked me to find a solution to his problem as he just bought a Mac laptop and he has only been using a Windows PC before. He needed a way to be able to manipulate some texts and picture on a file (template) that he print a couple of times each week. I have built a 2 pages PDF form for him and it was a success on every computer we tried it on, except for his new Mac Laptop.
Whenever we open the file on his laptop in acrobat reader, every single properties of any forms are not readed.
Those "missing" properties include :
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- All forms, checks and buttons are resetted to a "default" appearance.
The names and ID of the forms seems to be correct and forms with the same name seems to work. (if he fills in one part, it automaticly fills some parts on the 2nd pages instead of having him rewrite the whole stuff.)
The sizes of the forms are correct too. It seems to only affect the form properties, but not the manually inserted javascript.
I tried to open another form PDF I took from the Web (gouvernment forms) and it seems like the problem is not from my file as it happen with all PDF files with forms.
I checked his Acrobat Reader version and it seems like it's up to date, as well as his java software.
Since I couldn't do a full check-up and tried to reinstall Acrobat Reader and java as I only had about 20 minutes to check things, I'm asking around before taking that kind of option into account.
If any got any idea or have already experienced that kind of strange thing, please tell me where could the problem be.
Thanks!

The file is opened manually with Adobe Reader directly on the customer's computer harddrive. (Right click on the file directly stored on the desktop. "Open with ..." and then select "Adobe Reader". The program showed on the top bar is Acrobat Reader and it's hard to mix it up as it's totally different from the "Preview" program on the Mac.)
If I opened it with Preview (on the Mac), it was even LESS buggy. While some options are not accessible in Preview (mainly those who use javascripts or adobe reader/acrobat only features), the visual that aren't working in Adobe Reader were working fine. Since some basic options aren't available in Preview, my customer needs to use it in Adobe Reader.
I can garanty that the problem is related to Adobe Reader and/or maybe background process that Adobe Reader uses (for exemple : Java, C++, etc.)
I asked around to know if someone have already experienced this issue and if they have found a way to repair it without doing a full reinstall of every kind of process that Adobe Reader uses.
Also, if I'm doing a clean up for a restoration of Adobe Reader, is there any other program to reinstall then Adobe Reader and Java?

Acrobat Reader renders images pixelated

Some sections of an eBook contain text stored as Bitmaps. I'm not sure why the publisher did this, as it looks horribly in Acrobat Reader XI / Windows:
Note that only code sections with the font "Teletype" have this problem. This looks like a mix of bad pixelation and wrong anti-aliasing. Zooming in and out doesn't help. I also can't seem to find a zoom setting in which this font actually starts looking good. I also have this problem with other PDFs containing bitmaps, but here it is starting to get really nasty.
In Foxit Reader, this looks a little bit better since the bitmaps get anti-aliased:
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Also, I have already contacted the publisher if there is a version with correct true-text code sections.

This is the Acrobat forum and not the Reader forum. Integration of Reader in any way would require license with Adobe and there is a link on the Adobe site that relates to using Reader. Actually incorporating Reader in an application may be a different matter and you might want to inquire in one of the application programming forums for that, such as the SDK forum. The alternative for embedding might be to use GhostView instead.

How to change the default Typewriter font in Acrobat 9 Pro

This is driving me nuts. Is there a way to change the default typewriter font in Acrobat 9 Pro?
Thanks in advance.

Use the Typewriter Tool bar.
For changing Font:
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My PDF Document can't open properly in Acrobat Reader XI, But properly open in Acrobat Reader X

Hi ~~
As the topic, My customers using Acrobat Reader XI Can't open My Pdf file,
But, same file can be opened properly in Acrobat Reader X,
Acrobat Reader XI shows Error Message: Can't Capture Embeded Font
Is there any update of Acrobat Reader XI can fix this problem? pdf file sample: https://www.dropbox.com/s/68t63gz85ux3v5z/AAAAA.pdf

Hey jameswangtw,
Please ask your customer try downloading Asian Language Pack for Adobe Reader from the link given below:
Adobe - Adobe Reader : For Windows : Adobe Reader 11.0.09 Font Packs - Asian and Extended Language Pack
Regards,
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