"Font Capture: Windows - Application Error" 0xc06d007e on every PDF open (Acrobat 26.003.22075)
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open any PDF in Adobe Acrobat (64-bit) on Windows 11 (happens with every PDF, including older files).
2. A few seconds later a "Font Capture: Windows - Application Error" dialog appears with exception 0xc06d007e (delay-load module not found).
Environment:
- Adobe Acrobat (64-bit) 26.003.22075 (same on 26.002.22031)
- Windows 11, build 26300
- Antivirus: McAfee only
- The dialog belongs to an Acrobat renderer process (Acrobat.exe --type=renderer). That process loads no third-party modules (only Windows and Acrobat DLLs).
Already tried, without success:
- Updated from 26.002.22031 to 26.003.22075.
- Ran Help > Repair Installation (completed successfully).
- Fully uninstalled a second antivirus (Norton), whose hook DLL had been injected into Acrobat, and rebooted.
Expected result: PDFs open without an error dialog.
Observed result: the error dialog appears on every PDF open; after dismissing it, the PDF displays normally.
This looks like the same issue reported in the Adobe Community thread for 26.002.21931/21996, where Acrobat.dll's delay-load of msi.dll fails with error 1346. Is there a fix, or a supported way to disable the Font Capture component?
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