Detecting if a pdf has all fonts embedded

I'm looking for some ideas on how to solve a problem we have in accepting pdf.
We accept a user's pdf and we need to make sure that all fonts in the pdf are embedded.
If the pdf does not have all fonts embedded then the user should get a messsage telling him to embed all fonts.
The site is written in .net so I'm assuming that I have to create .dll using the adobe sdk.
Are there any other ways to solve this problem or any ideas that may be simpler to implement?

Pre-flighting is NOT something new to Acrobat in the app GUI it is however new to the scripting side. I don't have this version but you can build a set of conditions then test a PDF to see if it meets the conditions. Conditions can be just about anything in a PDF you care to check.
Again better to ask over in the Acrobat scripting forum on wether you could implement this.

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We accept a user's pdf and we need to make sure that all fonts in the pdf are embedded.
If the pdf does not have all fonts embedded then the user should get a messsage telling him to embed all fonts.
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