Print PDF without embedded fonts (for USPTO)

I need to print PDFs that can be uploaded to the US PTO, and for them to be compatible they must not have any embedded fonts. I am using the Acrobat XI Distiller with the configuration file downloaded directly from the PTO website http://www.uspto.gov/ebc/portal/efs/uspto.joboptions, but the fonts are still being embedded. Is there any way to get the PDF distiller to not embed any fonts?

The .joboptions file that your posting points to very specifically requests that all fonts be embedded, subsetted!!!
Thus, if you are using these joboptions to produce PDF, you are getting exactly what the joboptions call for.
If someplace on the US Patent and Trademark Office website is telling you to not embed fonts and then provides these joboptions, then they are giving you conflicting information!
However, searching that website, I found instructions for PDF file creation such as at <EFS-Web PDF Guidelines> and the attached PDF file from the website.
In fact, the US Patent and Trademark Office absolutely requires that you embed all fonts.
- Dov

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[svn:fx-trunk] 13366: Ensuring that AFEFontManager, if it is available, overrides the lookup for embedded fonts for all supported font types, including TTF, when embedding legacy DefineFont3 fonts.

Revision: 13366
Revision: 13366
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2010-01-07 22:15:50 -0800 (Thu, 07 Jan 2010)
Log Message:
Ensuring that AFEFontManager, if it is available, overrides the lookup for embedded fonts for all supported font types, including TTF, when embedding legacy DefineFont3 fonts. BatikFontManager will remain a backup in the event that AFEFontManager is not found though BatikFontManager;s support is limited to TTF for legacy DefineFont3 fonts.
QE notes: Remember that bitmap comparisons could change slightly
Doc notes: N/A
Bugs: N/A
Reviewer: For Gaurav
Tests run: checkintests, QE had run local tests
Is noteworthy for integration: Yes
Modified Paths:
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Both "Embed" profiles are there.]
Be well...
Message was edited by: CtDave

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