Lori DeFurio

June 13, 2007

Font Packs to use with Acrobat or Reader 8

If you're having trouble finding the Asian Font Packs and/or the European Extended Font Pack for Acrobat/Reader 8 on Adobe.com - not to worry. They're on our FTP site now as MSI files, and will be posted on Adobe.com later this summer as full installers (similar to Acrobat 7).
The Eastern European Font Pack includes Thai, Hebrew, and Arabic.
The Asian fonts - Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, and Korean are each in their own MSI file.

Please note: with these MSI files - you must copy the MSI installer to an empty directory and then run the installer from that directory. We've seen problems if there are other files in the directory. This is only an issue with the MSI files - this will not be a problem when we get the files posted on Adobe.com as full installers.

Posted by Lori DeFurio at 11:25 AM on June 13, 2007

Comments

Mihai — 05:03 PM on June 13, 2007

The so-called "Eastern European Font Pack" contains 3 fonts: AdobeArabic, AdobeHebrew, AdobeThai (and nothing else).

None of this languages is used in Eastern Europe.
The file is called FontPack80_Xtd_Lang.msi (Xtd: extend?/extension?)

So why call this "Eastern European" something?

Lori DeFurio — 07:00 PM on June 13, 2007

So... you're right. I was looking at the fonts for Central Europe... Anyways, the official name of the font pack that contains Arabic, Hebrew, and Thai is call Extended Language Font Pack.

KissKids — 08:25 PM on June 25, 2007

Exellent share for Japanese fonts! Thanks!

Lori DeFurio — 06:10 PM on July 25, 2007

Just in... The full installers are now posted on Adobe.com - http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrasianfontpack.html

You need to select your version of Reader (6, 7, or 8) and which font pack you want (CJK or Extended) and which platform (Win/Mac) and the download will start.

mels — 08:53 AM on September 05, 2007

traditional arabic doesnt seem to be supported. its the most common arabic font. sigh.

Maud — 09:53 AM on March 07, 2008

Hi,

For Arabic text, there is the Acrobat Middle Eastern version available from winSoft: http://www.winsoft.eu/products_solutions/adobe-acrobat-professional8.php
It will perfectly handle Arabic fonts.
Maud

taymour — 07:59 AM on April 15, 2008

need arabic font for adobe acrobat 6.0

thks

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