I am banging my head against a brick wall here, and Adobe is trying to figure 
out what is going on as well, but I thought that I would post to the list to 
see if anyone has run into the same issue:

I have Windows 11, 64 bit and have Framemaker 2019 installed and updated to 
date for the last version available. I have Adobe Acrobat Pro 2020 also 
installed and updated to the latest version available. I have the Roboto Font 
Family installed in C:\Windows\Fonts. I have confirmed that all the fonts are 
properly installed. They are the Open Type fonts available from Google that I 
received from a client (and they from Google) and these are the exact same 
fonts that are available from https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/roboto. (In fact, 
there is even the disclaimer for these fonts on the Adobe site that they are 
from Google.)

 In Framemaker, when I am setting up my template and creating the necessary 
paragraph tags, all the installed Roboto font families are available on the 
Font tab in the Paragraph Designer and all the available variations w/in these 
families (Bold, Italic) are available as options, so all is working correctly 
in Framemaker 2019.

 I always use the Publishing option in Framemaker to produce my PDFs. However, 
I always create a custom settings/job options file that stipulates the fonts 
that I want to embed for a specific template/client. (It's the standard 
procedure to do so, but for reference, see 
https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-framemaker-how-to-edit-the-pdf-preset-list/.)

 When I am creating the custom job options file in Distiller 2020, this is 
where I run into the issue: Adobe Distiller is NOT recognizing all the 
installed Roboto fonts. In the Fonts source list, C:\Windows\Fonts,  only a 
very small subset of all the installed Roboto fonts are available for 
selection. And it appears to be helter skelter as to which fonts are available 
for embedding and which are not. For example, none of the Roboto Thin 
variations and none of the Roboto Light variations are available, Roboto Black 
is available, but not Roboto Black Italic and yet all the variations of the 
Roboto Condensed (Bold, Italic, etc. ) are. And for reference, 
https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/kb/fonts-not-showing-in-the-menu.html, none of 
these possible reasons is applicable and again, I have confirmed these reasons 
are not applicable with Adobe. Acrobat is simply not recognizing these fonts 
and I cannot create the needed custom job options file to properly embed the 
needed fonts in the final PDF
 .

And I have confirmed emphatically with Adobe support that Framemaker 2019 and 
Acrobat Pro 2020 do absolutely work and are supported on Windows 11.  So far, 
FM2019 is cooperating, but the even newer product Adobe Acrobat Pro is the one 
giving me fits.



Thanks!



TVB



Tammy Van Boening
Tammyvb at spectrumwritingllc dot com
www.spectrumwritingllc.com


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