The invention discloses a method and device for acquiring font files of target characters to be presented in document files. The method includes the steps of receiving a first request, for requesting the font files of the target characters in the document files, from user equipment, acquiring document files corresponding to document identification according to the document identification in the first request, extracting font information corresponding to the target characters from the acquired embedded font files in the document files according to location identification in the first request, generating font files of the document type which can be supported by a document display client side of the user equipment according to the extracted font information, and supplying the generated font files to the user equipment. The font files of the font document type which can be supported by the document display client side of the user equipment are generated according to the extracted font information of the target characters from the embedded font files in the document files and used for presenting the target characters, so that the presentation speed of the target characters to be presented is increased.