editing high res pdf's

if it's telling you you don't have the available system font, then you don't have the actual font in the file. understand that there may be more than one version of certain fonts and you may have the wrong version.

You're going to have to get your hands on a copy of that font to work with it.

You're only other option is to outline the fonts first, then drop the PDF into InDesign and put a new text box over the top of the area you need to edit. Although the font won't match exactly.

Optionally, you could open the pages in Illustrator, substitute the fonts where needed, make the corrections and hit SAVE. Illustrator will save the page back into the PDF. Beware - it will make the file size much larger, especially after a few pages have been edited.

My nightmare job alarm is going off. Let me guess - the printer wants "a few tiny corrections", he's paying you next to nothing, he wants it tomorrow and he can't understand why you can't just "type it in!"

Get the font list and load up every version of those fonts you have available. If it's your lucky day the font names might tip you off to which version you need (ie: Agfa fonts sometimes have "Cg" before the name of the font... "CgGar" = Agfa Garamond) in which case you might be able to hit your friends up for a copy.

I would open the document in Illustrator too, if anything it's going to tell you the exact name of the missing fonts.

Thanks everyone! I'm going to try and get the correct font! urgh hate it when people don't give you the open files!! makes stuff complicated!

thanks! will let you know what happens! :)

Acrobat can keep giving you that message even if you have all that fonts installed.
If you ask me, Illustrator is the way to go.

thanks jozefk, i have tried & installed the fonts... still getting that message. so i'll just go the illustrator / photoshop way!

Photoshop? Why should you go for Photoshop? Photoshop is for editing/retouching images not text. But if you feel it's a good idea, go ahead :) For me Illustrator was and will always be the best app for editing already made PDF files.