Fonts

Text people write in the viewer, in a text box, a callout, a form field or a redaction label, shows while they type in the very font the PDF will carry, letter for letter, so what they see is what they save. Characters a font doesn’t have come from fallback fonts, so text in any language shows, right to left where it reads that way.

Choosing a font#

The style panel’s font picker offers every font text can be written in, in three groups:

Most PDFs carry only the characters their text uses, so their fonts can’t be used for new text, and the picker doesn’t offer them. A box that already has such a font keeps it: the picker shows it as the box’s font, greyed, with why it can’t be chosen for another box.

Your server’s fonts#

The server writes the text, so its fonts are the ones offered, under Server fonts: configure them on the server, as Fonts shows, and choose which of them it may send to browsers. A font it keeps to itself is still offered, and shows in the closest font while people type; the saved text is in it.

A fonts setting in the viewer is ignored on the cloud, with a warning in the console.

Text in any language#

Hebrew and Arabic work with no setup: the engine fills them in from Noto Sans Hebrew and Noto Naskh Arabic.

For another script, such as Chinese, give your server a fallback font; see Fonts.

Latin always shows: a font without it, such as Noto Sans Hebrew, keeps its Latin in Helvetica, in the same weight. A character no font has shows as a box, both while typing and in the PDF, so no text is lost without a trace.

Typed signatures#

A signature typed in the signature maker is written in a handwriting font. Pick the fonts it offers with plugins.signature.fonts; see Signatures.