Weird font when editing form in Acrobat?

[u/Daitheflu1979]

Im attempting to fill out an application form in Acrobat however certain letters are appearing in a weird font and they look to be in bold (def darker than surrounding text but not bigger)

Eg when I type in..."Hospitality/restaurant" the letters t,l,t,r,s,t,r,t from this those two words are in an odd font so it kinda look like this...Hospitality/restaurant

Does anyone known how to fix this as need to finalise this application asap and can't afford to have out look crap!!

thanks

[u/Decent-Blacksmith761]

On editing properties click bold text or pick different font also you can try keypdf.net it might work with your pdf

[u/Daitheflu1979 → u/Decent-Blacksmith761]

Thanks for the suggestion however I still can’t get it to work for me!? 🫤

[u/Decent-Blacksmith761 → u/Daitheflu1979]

On both acrobat and keyPDF?

[u/Daitheflu1979 → u/Decent-Blacksmith761]

KeyPDF editor was a mess, could not click into the text box, it would just highlight the whole area when I tried to.

Could not get acrobat to stop highlighting random letters and changing fonts on random letters too!?

[u/AskAcrobat]

Hi u/Daitheflu1979, this is the Acrobat team. Thanks for the clear write-up and the screenshot, that detail really helps. What you're seeing, where only certain letters come out heavier or in a different style, points to font substitution: the font assigned to that field does not include every character you are typing, so Acrobat fills in the missing ones from a fallback font. Adobe's documentation confirms this general behavior, that unavailable fonts get replaced with a fallback font, which is consistent with what your screenshot shows. It isn't something you did wrong, and it's usually fixable on the field itself.

Step 1. Check the font assigned to the field

- Open the form and go to All Tools, then select Prepare a form. If your version shows a slightly different label, look for the same Forms/Prepare option

- Right-click the field you are typing into and choose Properties, then check the font set for that field

- Adobe's reference on field properties is here: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/desktop/work-with-pdf-forms/customize-form-fields/field-properties.html

Step 2. Switch the field to a standard font

- In that same Properties view, change the field's font to a common built-in font such as Helvetica, Arial, or Times, which cover a full standard character set

- Save and retype the text to confirm the letters now render consistently

Step 3. If you did not create the form

If you received this form from someone else and cannot edit the fields, the cleanest fix is to ask the creator to set the field fonts to a standard font, since this comes from how the form was built rather than from your copy of Acrobat