I am trying to edit a PDF with Acrobat 8.0 Professional and I get the following error message when I try to edit using the Touch Up Text tool:
"All or part of the selection has not available system font. You cannot add or delete or delete the text using the currently selected font"
When I right-click on the text and select 'Properties' to find out what font is required it says the font is the original and editing for are "T1" and 14pt. but no other information is given.
How do I determine exactly which font I need?
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That doesn't really help. The font looks like most other fonts. When I upload the font to What the Font it returns 62 matches and I can't really narrow it down to any of them. Is there some other way to edit or delete the text in the document? I find it difficult to believe that I cannot do edit this PDF or even determine which font I need in order to obtain a license to use it.
Thanks!
You can only use the TouchUp Text tool if the font that's used for the text that you want to edit is available locally. It is likely that the font used is actually embedded in the PDF file and is not even supposed to be installed on your system (e.g. because you have not licensed it).
To find out what font is used, select the text in question with the TouchUp Text tool active, then right-click and select "Properties". This will display what font is used. You will also see if the font is embedded or not. As I said, it is very likely that the font is embedded, and not installed on your system.
Acrobat is using this mechanism/limitation because of font licensing issues: You may be allowed to embed a font in a PDF file for display/print purposes only. Once you try to edit the text, you might need a different license. Acrobat does not know anything about the license that the font came with, so it has to restrict what you can do with the touchup tool. Once you have the font installed locally, it is assumed that you do have the correct license to use it to create/modify text.
Thanks BriniMav. Regrettably I read your exact response in another thread solution and it doesn't help me because the "Properties" only displays 'T1' as the font type and doesn't say whether or not it is embedded. This is what it says:
Font: T1
Original Font: T1
Editing Font: T1
Permissions: No system font available
Additionally the 'Embed' and 'Subset' boxes are unchecked and grayed out.
I don't think your going to be able to get the font from that PDF file if it isnt in the menu boxfetish mentioned.
I think your best bet would be to convert your PDF file into a plain text document, make the changes you need, and then convert back to PDF.
Theres a lot of applications out there to do that but most of them are not free regrettably. I was able to find a promising looking free one however on sourceforge.
http://sourceforge.net/pro
It basically converts your PDF into a odf (open document) which you can edit, add images etc, and then convert back to PDF.
You might wanna try it out.
On further review of the program, I dont think ti will do what you want since it doesnt actually convert to plain text, just images that you can overlay text onto. I will try to find a better one if converting to text and then back to PDF is an acceptable solution to this problem (maybe the only one).
http://www.activepdf.com/p
http://www.brothersoft.com
From my experience these programs tend to vary a lot in quality of results, but fortunatly they do come with trials. I'm sorry I can't give a specific reccomendation on which one is best, but maybe somone else here can make a suggestion.
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by: BriniMavPosted on 2007-10-29 at 12:18:10ID: 20172393
I'm not sure if this will help but if you need to find out what the font is take a screenshot, (alt printscreen) use an image editor to crop the image to a word or two in that font. Then go to the url below and uplad it. The supplied web page will tell you what the font used was.
Link:
http://www.myfonts.com/Wha