HELP! How to unembed fonts in a fillable form.

I am using the trial version of the Adobe Designer 7.0 on a Dell computer and thinking of purchasing the product. My problem is that I somehow have embedded fonts in the form. I am creating a fillable form to be filled out online but the file size is 511 kb. I have an original form with no fields that is only 11kb. I need to have this form I created in Designer to be MUCH smaller. How can I unembed the fonts? I have SAVED AS - didn't help. Went to Advanced (in Acrobat), PDF Optimizer, Audit Space Usage-didn't work. And File, reduce file size - at that point is where an error message comes up saying "This PDF contains Adobe XML form. Such PDFs cannot be optimized." Help! My trial version will be running out soon.
Meg

meg7,
In the Save dialog, there should be an option at the bottom that allows you to un-embed fonts. An additional pointer on fonts:
- Use the following fonts if you can (they are available in Acrobat and Reader, and do not need to be embeded:)
* TimesRoman, TimesBold, TimesItalic, TimesBoldItalic
* Helvetica, HelveticaBold, HelveticaOblique, HelveticaBoldOblique
* Courier, CourierBold, CourierOblique, CourierBoldOblique
* Symbol, ZapfDingbats
Cheers
David
www.ensemble.com
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