In short, to use InDesign 2019’s method for selecting the form-field font is to rely on the end-user having that font installed on their system, or to risk an ugly, generic substitute font appearing in its place. I’m not quite sure which typeface it is, and I suspect that it is weird and distorted because the font metrics are passed to the PDF, and Acrobat is trying to match those font metrics (that is, the widths of the individual letters of the font) by stretching its own generic serif or sans-serif font.
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If you choose a font family for a form field in InDesign, the end user – that is, the person filling-in the interactive PDF form using Adobe Reader – will only see the font the designer has chosen if they have it installed on their own computer! If the font is not installed, they will get some weird, distorted typeface instead.
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(1) This Is a Biggie: InDesign 2019 Does Not Embed Fonts in Form Fields! How it works in InDesign 2019…Īfter extensive testing, I can state that FormMagic beats InDesign 2019 hands down when it comes to applying fonts to form fields for the simple reason that InDesign does not embed the selected fonts in the exported PDF. And in this blog post I want to list the major reasons for this. No! FormMagic remains hugely useful even post-2019. The ability to choose fonts for form fields (and to choose them easily and efficiently) in InDesign is undoubtedly one of the reasons for FormMagic‘s popularity, since prior to InDesign 2019 it was not possible to do this in any way.īut in InDesign 2019 Adobe have finally given every user a way to apply fonts to form fields natively. It’s as easy as applying a ready-made paragraph style to each form field. With FormMagic, fonts, colour, size, text alignment, rich text, and even comb fields, can all be applied to form fields inside InDesign using InDesign’s native text formatting tools. Compare this to applying fonts to text in InDesign! InDesign is created to make it easy, quick and efficient to do so: not only does it offer a great font menu, it also provides paragraph and character styles with keyboard shortcuts – important features that make applying text formatting a doddle. The field has to be selected, then a right-click to open the properties dialog, then switching to correct tab and locating the font in a dropdown menu. (2) Applying fonts to form fields in Acrobat is a fiddly business at best. Many forms go through multiple editing cycles, and it’s no fun repeatedly redoing the same work in Acrobat.
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(1) If the font has to be set separately in Acrobat, each time a design change is made to a form that requires opening the InDesign file and re-exporting the interactive PDF, all work done in Acrobat – applying fonts to form fields, plus any other special field formatting – has to be redone. Making it easier means allowing the user to choose fonts for form fields inside InDesign, for two reasons: I created FormMagic (an InDesign/Acrobat add-on for anyone making interactive forms in InDesign) in large part to make it easier to choose a default font for interactive PDF form fields.
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Wouldn’t a sans-serif – Helvetica or Arial – have made more sense? But that was Adobe’s choice, for better or worse, and any designer working on interactive forms in InDesign knew that they would have to change form field fonts afterwards in Acrobat, once the PDF had been exported. Times is a dubious choice for a form field. Until today, interactive form fields created in InDesign would always be set to Times Roman when opened in Acrobat. After a long wait, the latest version of InDesign, 2019, has finally introduced the ability to select a font for interactive PDF form fields.