Embedding Fonts in PostScript and/or PDF

Under 10.3 the Print dialogue had a Save As File option which allowed the embedding of fonts in PostScript. Choices were All, All but Standard 13 and such. This made sure that the PostScript (and generated PDF) files would render properly on systems with a different set of fonts.
Under 10.4 this capabilty seems to be either lost of so well hidden that I have not been able to find it. Did I miss it?
How does one embed fonts in PostScript and/or PDF files? Is there a Tiger options somewhere? Is this a case of having to use a third party utility? Like the full Acrobat set or something else.

AFAIK, the system PDF creation always embeds fonts.
At least in the few tests I've done, using the Save
as PDF option in the print dialog produced PDF files
that show in Acrobat as having embedded font subsets.
Thanks. I checked with the same ressults but the problem I am having seems to be related to the Type 3 custom fonts that are in LaTEX generated files. The Type 3 fonts do not seem to survive being saved as PDF. They seem to cause some confusion in DEVONthink and I was hoping to get files that could be scanned by it.

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[svn:osmf:] 13113: Changing to not use an embedded font by default, and adding instructions on how to use the free 'type writer' bitmap font.

Revision: 13113
Revision: 13113
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-12-21 01:08:10 -0800 (Mon, 21 Dec 2009)
Log Message:
Changing to not use an embedded font by default, and adding instructions on how to use the free 'type writer' bitmap font.
Modified Paths:
    osmf/trunk/libs/ChromeLibrary/.flexLibProperties
    osmf/trunk/libs/ChromeLibrary/src/org/osmf/chrome/controlbar/widgets/ScrubBar.as
    osmf/trunk/libs/ChromeLibrary/src/org/osmf/chrome/controlbar/widgets/URLInput.as
Added Paths:
    osmf/trunk/libs/ChromeLibrary/src/org/osmf/chrome/fonts/
    osmf/trunk/libs/ChromeLibrary/src/org/osmf/chrome/fonts/Fonts.as
Removed Paths:
    osmf/trunk/libs/ChromeLibrary/assets/images/stop_up.png_1

Your site was built using tables, whose sizes are defined in your site.
If we look at your first table definition, we can see:
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Your table has a width of 861 pixels and an overall height of 1449 pixels. Anything you put into that overall box must fit those dimensions, else
it won't be visible. Anything you add above it will push everything down. You can redefine your sizing to let you edit more inside of the table elements.
This is why, when you type in more text, things act weird. If you are in Dreamweaver, you must find the right cell to put your text into and then enter
text there. Unfortunately, this is going to push things around, which were all lined up using tables. And this gets everything offset with respect to
everything else in your website.
And that is why everyone is saying, "Start Over!"
I just inherited a website that has been put together using tables. I'm going to have to expend considerable effort in rewriting the entire design of the
website because of that. because everything I intend to add to the pages on the site is going to need to be deconstructed in order to get it to work
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[svn:fx-trunk] 8712: Fix embedded fonts in RSLs ( and more complex module topologies)

Revision: 8712
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-07-21 10:39:03 -0700 (Tue, 21 Jul 2009)
Log Message:
Fix embedded fonts in RSLs (and more complex module topologies)
QE Notes: None
Doc Notes: None
Bugs: SDK-22313
Reviewer: Darrell, Gordon
API Change: None
Is noteworthy for integration: No
tests: checkintests mustella/gumbo/components/TextInput mustella/gumbo/components/TextArea
Ticket Links:
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-22313
Modified Paths:
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/core/FlexModuleFactory.as
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/managers/SystemManager.as
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/primitives/RichEditableText.as
    flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/tools/PreLink.java

Hi Stephan,
this solved placing both animation on one page. Make sure all your fonts are called out in the <head> section like for example:
<script>var __adobewebfontsappname__="dreamweaver"</script>
<script src="http://use.edgefonts.net/quicksand:n3,n4:default.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Dreamweaver does this automatic for you. If you are having a font conflict I recommend under command (if you are using dreamweaver)
Clean up the font Tag and add only the ones that you are using again, sometimes they accumulate.
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Embedding Fonts in Oracle Reports with PDF output

I've read in the data sheet for Oracle reports that you can embed font in the PDF output, but I cannot seem to find any documentation on how this is done. Current we have PDF reports being generated using reports server on Compaq (Alpha based) server running TRUE64 UNIX. The reports server uses the fonts install on the Compaq to figure out the layout (we use auto-sized fields). When the PDF is displayed on a Windows client the fonts are substituted and the labels and fields overlap. I want to embed the UNIX fonts into the PDF so that the output is reproduced as it was generated.

You need to export as PDF (Interactive) and you also need to view the PDF in Reader or Acrobat 9 or later.
Bob

Unknown embedded font is preventing saving as PDF

I am aware that some fonts cannot be saved into PDFs because of licensing restrictions, but I am having a hard time finding where Indesign is referencing this font in this case. I'm guessing that it might be in one of the linked files perhaps? I did not use that particular font anywhere in the document and when I go to "find/change..." under "glyphs", that font is not listed there. I'm not sure where that font is coming from. Is there a way to search for that font in my links and in the document itself? Thanks!

Thanks! That worked! I guess I must have forgotten to create outline on the font before I saved it to a pdf and it was being found in linked pdfs.

Embeding Fonts from TTF File

Hi,
I had a very basic question on using Embeded Fonts in SWF files.
I have to use a Italic effect on a Arail Font text, for this should I use ARIAL.TTF and apply the italic effect on it or Should I go for ARIALI.TTF file?
What is the difference and which is the correct way of doing it?
I am acutally working on a PPT to SWF converter and I am not able to match the look at feel of the Italic or Bold fonts in PPT and SWF, any suggestions where I should look for help on understanding how fonts are used?

Hi Peter,
     Thanks for your reply.
     I did some experimentation and found that I can embed the Arail.ttf file and apply FontStyle=Italic property in my MXML tag and it shows me a italic form of Arail font. But when I try to use the same embeded font using FontRange and specify FontStyle = Italic in font range the italic font is not shown on the UI. Why is there a difference in MXML and Font Range ?
     I understand that I should use ARIALI.TTF file for Italic fonts but the problem is that it increases the size of my SWF. And even if somebody has used a italic style for couple of words it increases the size significantly. I want to avoid that.
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PDF and OTF (Postscript) font issue (is there a PDF validation tool?)

Greetings all,
I am experiencing a problem uploading any documents, which include embedded OTF (Postscript) fonts, to a Cloud based collaboration tool called Crocodoc. The problem/failure appears to occur during the document conversion from PDF to HTML5. It is important to note that this problem is not specific to Crocodoc because I have tested others (i.e. Zoho).
The problem is specifically with Madcap Flare and its recent support for OTF fonts. This is how I arrived at this conclusion:
- Changing the embedded font to TTF only, the published PDF uploads to Crocodoc without incident.
- It is not the OTF font. I have also tested this particular OTF font with other publication tools, including Microsoft Word and Adobe Framemaker; there were no issues.
Other facts:
- PDF files appear to function normally. It is only when I upload to Crocodoc-like apps when the problem manifests itself.
I subscribe to the Creative Cloud but Adobe Acrobat doesn't seem to have any validation functionality.
But here are some other tests that I have done:
- Opened the malfunctioning PDF into Acrobat (no apparent issues)
> Saved as optimized with all discard options turned on plus I ran the sanitize option. The new saved PDF still failed to upload.
> Removed ALL text and saved a blank page. Still failed to upload to Crocodoc
> As a verification, I created a PDF page (from clipboard) with Acrobat and saved that (one line of font using OTF font) - This successfully uploaded to Crocodoc.
> VERY INTERESTING...using Acrobat to CONVERT the problem PDF to eps and then eps back to PDF - This PDF uploaded successfully to Crocodoc.
BUT there is something 'wrong' with Adobe Acrobat's conversion because it only converts the first page back into a PDF. WHAT?
Conclusion, as long as the PDF originated in Flare, it will fail to upload to Crocodoc. However, converting the document to .eps and then back to a PDF seems to have stripped away the 'bad' stuff.
What I am trying to learn is what exactly is causing the upload and conversion error?
Is there a PDF validation tool and might identify what is causing this conversion problem?
Sorry for the long post. Hopefully someone had the patience to read this and has an idea.
Thank you

Hello TSN,
Test Screen Name wrote:
Picking just one point: PDF -> EPS -> PDF. This could not possibly do more than one page, because EPS is absolutely by definition a single page format. Therefore you must choose a page when exporting PDF to EPS.
Thanks for your response.
I was thinking Microsoft... which has allowed multi-page eps files for years. But you're correct, this is normally an unsupported .eps format.
I solved the problem over the weekend by doing the following:
1) I removed the suspect OTF font family but despite doing so, the folder still had two 'corrupted' but unused copies of an italic font. They refused to remove so I had to boot into Win7 SAFE mode to remove.
2) After complete removal of the OTF font family. I reinstalled the OTF font *BUT* only from a different repository (oddly, this other OTF font set is slightly larger per font).
3) Once installed, I tested with Flare, published and uploaded to Crocodoc SUCCESSFULLY. Yeah!
I don't have anymore time to test but the questions remain, such as, was it one or more of the following issues:
a) Flare has a problem handling some OTF fonts or cannot error correct (the way other programs do) for marginal fonts or font errors?
b) Was it the two corrupted fonts in the Windows/fonts folder?
c) Was it the slightly different OTF fonts that I am no longer using?
Take care

When trying to upload a PDF to an interactive site I get the announcement:"The attached PDF file references a non-embedded font Tahoma. Please remove file, embed the font and reattach." How do I embed this, or in fact any other font ?

When trying to upload a PDF to an interactive site I get the announcement: "The attached PDF file references a non-embedded font Tahoma. Please remove file, embed the font and reattach."
I could not get rid of the Tahoma font in the WORD file.
How do I embed this, or in fact any other font ?

Thank you very much !
Indeed, I was unaware of the enormous number of options that can be selected when converting a WORD file to PDF.
I went thru the settings and found the right one for embedding the fonts.
Thanks again !
Oren

I am on a Windows 7 OS attempting to reduce pdf size with my Adobe Acrobat Standard XI & Pro. The application keeps timing out and at the Subsetting embedded fonts portion and the application gives "Adobe Acrobat has stopped working" and then closes. T

I am on a Windows 7 OS attempting to reduce pdf size with my Adobe Acrobat Standard XI & Pro. The application keeps timing out and at the Subsetting embedded fonts portion and the application gives "Adobe Acrobat has stopped working" and then closes. The document is 275 pages. Is there something I can do to stop this?

Hi Ricci,
Since when are you facing this issue? Did you tried system restore to a date before this problem occured.
Does acrobat stop working when you open this specific pdf file or with any pdf file that you open?
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Rahul

Problem with PDF export and embedded font (characters disappear)

Designer: Crystal Reports 2008 SP 2
Engine: CR4E 2.0 SP2 (runtime_12.2.203)
Hi there!
we found a problem in the pdf export. It seems like there would be a problem with the embedded fonts, the problem is as follows:
Rpt file with, for example only a text box which contains the german string " Änderungs Schlüssel ".
Export the Rpt file with CR4E to a pdf file.
When we open the pdf file in Adope Reader 8, the text appears to be correct,
but if we print the PDF file from the Adope Reader, the text changes to " nderungs Schl sselu201C,
here we are missing ther german umlaute.
When we open the file for example with an alternative PDF reader like Foxit Reader, there they are also missing.
After i found some posts here in the forum, there are people facing the same problem, since i couldn't find a solution in the forum, we build a little workaround for it that works for us.
For all of you that have the same problem here the workaround:
We used the IText JAVA library, this jar can can help as to fix the PDF file so the text is displayed correctly.
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//... write the stream some where

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import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfImportedPage;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
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Embedding fonts and broken up type in PDF's created in MS Word

Win 7, Acrobat 9, MS Word 2010
As we all know, Word by default doesn't embed fonts when saving as a PDF. We usually solve that problem by using the embed font preflight. The problem is that sometimes the paragraph text is broken up into a billion (well maybe a couple dozen) small chunks of text. When you apply the preflight, it can cause the type to shift position as in the sample:
Any idea why Word will sometimes do this and other time will not?
Thanks!
Mike

Thanks, Bill. I'm in a school district copy and print center and we don't have control over how the PDF files are generated most of the time. My initial testing did show an improvement printing to the Adobe PDF printer vs. saving as a PDF when it comes to chunking up the text. It doesn't solve my problem but it does throw some light on Word's behavior.

Fully embedding fonts in PDF

Hi,
I had a piece of information but I can't seem to find it anymore so I have to ask ...
This is about understanding limitations of fully embedding fonts in a PDF (from Indesign Server). Actually it's about one limitation in particular. I know fonts with licensing issues or fonts that are marked "embedded not allowed" will not be embedded. Also, there is a threshold that I need to set.
So, I recall reading somewhere that Indesign will not fully embed "standard" fonts. Is that correct and what is this standard fonts category?
Oh, reading through some posts, I noticed lots of people and experts ask why does one need fully embedded fonts. That's a good question and I don't know the root reason but in my case it seems that some regulatory agencies (in the life sciences/pharma domain) require PDFs with fully embedded fonts.
Many thanks
Cristian

On behalf of Adobe:
(1)     For both InDesign “PDF export” (including InDesign Server) and Illustrator “save as PDF” functions, most but not all of the .joboptions file font embedding options are totally and utterly ignored. The options that are ignored are the Embed all fonts, Embed OpenType fonts, Always embed, and Never embed. Those options are observed by Distiller and the PDFMaker components of Acrobat.
(2)     These applications will attempt to embed all fonts referenced by the document, regardless of the settings of the .joboptions file. The only reason why a font would not be embedded in a PDF file would be if (a) the font was unavailable (i.e., not installed on the system) or (b) the font's embedding permissions do not permit embedding for at least preview and print privileges. Thus, if you use the so-called Standard .joboptions (strongly not recommended for any graphic arts purposes), even the base 14 fonts (four faces each of Helvetica, Times, and Courier along with Symbol and ITC Zapf Dingbats will be embedded if your document references them.
(3)     The subset threshold value of 0 (zero) may effectively cause all the glyphs of a font to be embedded in some, but not all cases. This will work for many if not most Type 1 fonts and some smaller TrueType and OpenType CFF fonts. Note that embedding all glyphs in a font is not the same as embedding a full font. For OpenType and TrueType fonts, InDesign and Illustrator never embed all the tables of the font. Such unembedded tables include those used for pair kerning, advanced OpenType features (such as ligatures, alternate representations, contextual alternates, small caps, old style figures, etc.), and extended metrics.
(4)     There are plenty of bubbameissas out there with regards to the benefits or liabilities of either fully embedding or subset embedding fonts. What is true is that: (a) Acrobat never uses the embedded font for text editing - you must have the font installed on the system in order to do such edits. (b) Subset embedding or not is totally irrelevant to what a RIP does when rendering text, either for PostScript or direct PDF RIPs. Neither subset or full embedding is any more reliable than the other and the specifications of PostScript and PDF do not permit the RIP to replace the embedded font with a font with a similar name - urban legend notwithstanding!!!! (c) Third party plug-ins to Acrobat or applications that claim to allow you to edit PDF files with embedded fonts may be illegally letting you do so if the embedding permissions do not permit embedding for editable embedding or installable embedding - most fonts do not provide such embedding permissions and since the fonts are missing metric information, such editing may be somewhat lacking in quality or features.
(5)     In fact some very non-tech-savvy organizations have posted requirements for full embedding of fonts in submitted PDF files (I have personally seen one such requirement by some international bureaucracy). They can post such bone-headed requirements based on limited understanding of PDF and PDF workflows, but that doesn't mean that anybody actually provides such PDF files. If in fact you run into such requirements, I would appreciate it if references to same can be forwarded to my attention by private message on these forums.
          - Dov

PDF with embedded fonts prints in Courier

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%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: –œ ‡°±· ]%%
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
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In Past versions of Word, you could save the file in Postscript format. (File.ps) IF using 2007/2008, 2010/2011, 2013 don't allow saving as Postscript.
You can Drag and drop Word Files on the Icon of Acrobat in the Dock (or Start menu or where ever located), and Acrobat will process Word files into a PDF. It make take a while to do so but it will.

Hundreds of Duplicate Embedded Fonts in PDF Makes it HUGE

Hello!
I have a document (word docx file) that is over 150+ pages long. When I print to Adobe Acrobat Pro - it crashes. When I open the document in Preview, it looks fine - but after saving the file as a PDF, the file size is HUGE (over 250+ mb in size). It contains no images, and only a handful of fonts.
The huge PDF file opens fine with Preview and Acrobat after saving it from Preview. So, I uploaded it to my printer's servers (Lulu, the document is a manuscript), and a few days later I get a RIP error during the printing process. Lulu reports they can not print the PDF.
So, I spent many hours trying several other solutions - including saving as a postscript file directly - but the files always end up being huge. Finally, this morning, I thought to inspect the PDF file created by Preview... and I found that there were literally thousands of duplicate embedded fonts in the PDF file. Garamond, for example, was embedded over 15,000 times...
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ANY help would be appreciated. Basically what I want to do is have OSX produce a normal PDF with each font only embedded once.
Anyone have any clues?
(I've tried ghostscript, PDFshrinker, different quartz filters, etc... can't seem to figure this out...)

I believe I have found the problem. Something from what you wrote made me think about how OS X fonts are really "pretty" -- after looking into it... the tech term is that OSX uses "ligatures" between characters in fonts that have them. Wel... ALL the fonts I use include these so-called ligatures, which can cause problems when the Word Doc is viewed on Windows machines... i didn't think this would matter with PDF's... but.. I went back into Word,switched to "publisher view" (which is the only way to access Word's ligatures option) turned Ligatures OFF and then produced the PDF as usual
VOILA!!!
The PDF was 80mb, and all the fonts were embedded ONCE each. After running Adobe Acrobat Pro's PDF Optimizer for Prepress the file dropped to 20MB!
I've uploaded it to LULU... I'm fairly sure this will work
THANK YOU for the discussion... I'm not sure what it was; (it was late at night)... but this discussion has really helped!

In design to pdf/x-1a:2001 embedded fonts

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I was asked by a printed to export my cs2 indesign file as a pdf/x-1a:2001 file with embedded fonts. The document just came back stating that the font on page 27 is not embedded. The same font is used through out the document. When I double check the font settings in the preflight dialogue box everything looks good. Is there a way to make sure or manually embed fonts?
Thanks!
H

Adobe Sans MM and Adobe Serif MM are substitution fonts used by Adobe applications to display sans serif and serif text respectively when a font is missing. It is most commonly used by Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Adobe content creation applications (InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop) do not allow you to create content using those fonts. The names not made available on any list for you to choose from. The only time you typically see those font names is if you created a PDF file and one or more of the fonts could not be embedded or were not requested to be embedded and when that PDF file is displayed, the non-embedded fonts are not on the system of the viewer. Thus, the CTRL-D Fonts function in Acrobat or Reader might show that let's say font Inebriated Oblique is not embedded and that font used for its display is Adobe Sans.
I assume what you are seeing is not the font used for display, but rather, the "missing font" ... correct?
There are some very unusual situations in which somehow text content in a PDF file looks like it was formatted in either Adobe Sans or Adobe Serif. This may be the result of what is called refrying a PDF file. Refrying is the process in which a PDF file is printed to the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance and the result is another PDF file after the PostScript is distilled. Such refry operations are strongly discouraged by Adobe given that the PostScript generated by Adobe Acrobat is optimized for PostScript printers, not for creation of PDF, and some anomalies, such as calls for Adobe Sans or Adobe Serif may result.
My best guess is that your original InDesign document has one or more placed PDF files in it that are either missing embedded fonts and are calling for Adobe Sans. Check out each placed PDF file individually and make sure that none are missing embedded fonts and/or refer to Adobe Sans (or Adobe Serif).
- Dov

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