Embedding a font without subsetting.

Hello,
I try to programmatically embed a full font into PDf in order to let the later editing of a document. What I do now is scanning through a font file and writing all the glyphs from the ttf into font stream. Also I create and write CMap using /ToUnicode entry. The size of output pdf is quite big (7 mb vs 17k for the same source file with subsetting), but when I try to edit this document I get a warning: Since the original font is not available a substituted font for editing is used.
Does it mean that I succeded to embed the complete font? Is there any mtehod or tool to verify if the font is completely embedded in a document? Otherwise, what do I lose? Maybe there excist any additional documents/refernces/guidlines for embedding the whole font besides the PDF format spec?
Thanks in advance,
Alex

The ability to edit the text in a PDF file using Adobe Acrobat has NOTHING to do with whether a font is embedded by subset or not,.  Adobe Acrobat will ONLY allow editing of text in a font that is installed on the user's computer.  So even if you did a full embed, if the user didn't have the font installed - it wouldn't matter.

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