

3) What is the technical background of this message - or is it a bug (within which software)?.2) Is there something I can adjust when creating the PDF?.1) Why does this error message appear in some cases?.Seems weird for me, that in one case the font can be found and in some cases not. When the error message appears, there is a font substitution indicated (TimesNewRomanPSMT is substituted by Times New Roman, ArialMT is is substituted by Arial).
#Times new roman font pdf#
When there is no error message, the font tab in the PDF document properties indicates no font substitution. From what I can see there is no logical behavior.Īs far as I understood fonts in Windows, Office and Acrobat: Times New Roman and TimesNewRomanPSMT (also Arial and ArialMT) are identical, once referenced with an internal name, once with an external name.

On the next day (same document, same computer, same user) the error message can appear again. Everything works fine, no display errors, no error message.
#Times new roman font windows#
The error message is displayed in PDF files created earlier (e.g in 2013, with Windows 7, Office 2010 and an earlier version of Acrobat Pro) and also in PDF files created today.Ĭrazily: in most cases (> 90%) there is no error message when opening the same PDF file. In very rare cases the same error message is displayed when re-opening the PDF, and re-re-opening the document solves it again (or re-re-re-opening, and so on.).

Closing the document and re-opening the file solves in most cases this issue: no error message, and the content is properly displayed. As a result the content is not displayed. In Word we use Times New Roman as font (sometimes Arial), and create PDF files by the Acrobat tab (Standard settings Base14 fonts not embedded).ĭuring the last months (some say since years) many users (>100 people) sometimes encounter an issue, which gets more and more annoying, as it occurs seemingly more often: When opening a PDF file, sometimes an error message is displayed which indicates that the font TimesNewRomanPSMT (or ArialMT) could not be found and some characters might not be displayed correct. Our company uses Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word (2016) and Adobe Acrobat to create PDF files.
