Adobe Acrobat Reader DC MSI and Font Pack — Silent Install Guide (2026)

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Font Pack MSI Download

Adobe Acrobat Reader’s Font Pack adds the additional language fonts needed to correctly display PDF documents where the author hasn’t embedded the fonts themselves — commonly an issue with documents authored in East Asian or other non-Latin scripts. Getting the Installer Download the current Font Pack MSI directly from Adobe’s own download pages rather than […]

By Andrew Armstrong • 2 min read

Getting the Installer

Download the current Font Pack MSI directly from Adobe’s own download pages rather than a third-party mirror, since Adobe periodically updates the package alongside Acrobat Reader DC releases — search “Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Font Pack MSI” on Adobe’s site for the current direct link.

Silent Installation

Via Group Policy / WDS:

adobefontsdcinstaller.msi /q /norestart

Via Configuration Manager:

msiexec /i "adobefontsinstaller.msi" /q /norestart

Either way, package it as an MSI-based Application in your Software Catalog or push via Group Policy, and pair it with the standard Acrobat Reader DC MSI deployment if you’re not already distributing that separately — the Font Pack is an add-on to Reader, not a replacement for it.

A Note on the Old FTP Link (Updated for 2026)

The Font Pack has historically been distributed from Adobe’s FTP server (ftp.adobe.com), but that FTP distribution has been unreliable for several years now and shouldn’t be relied on for a fresh deployment today. Adobe’s current, supported path is through its own Font Pack help articles on helpx.adobe.com, which link out to HTTPS downloads hosted on Adobe’s ardownload2.adobe.com CDN rather than FTP. The filename itself changes with every Font Pack release — it follows the same versioned naming pattern as the original (e.g. FontPackXXXXXXXXXX_XtdAlf_Lang_DC.msi), so always grab whatever the current helpx.adobe.com article links to rather than reusing an old download URL, since the version number needs to line up with whichever Acrobat Reader build and update channel (Continuous vs. Classic) you’re actually deploying.

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Andrew Armstrong

Andrew Armstrong is a UK-based IT professional with 26+ years of hands-on experience in Windows, Windows Server, SCCM/ConfigMgr, Active Directory, PowerShell, and enterprise infrastructure.

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