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Cannot embed Adobe Garamond Pro in PDF

  • December 22, 2019
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I have a CC subscription, and installed Adobe Garamond Pro from TypeKit.

 

I am using this font in a Microsoft Word docx. I set the "Embed fonts" option in Word. I save it as a PDF, and Adobe Garamond Pro is missing in the PDF - it has been substituted with Times New Roman.

 

As I understand it, the license for Adobe Garamond Pro does allow for embedding in PDFs, so why is it not working?

 

Thanks.

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Correct answer Dov Isaacs

To answer your question, yes, currently in order to embed any OpenType CFF font in a PDF file created from within Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, you need Acrobat. Even within Adobe, we've complained to Microsoft about this bug/shortcoming in their PDF creation (since we hear about it from customers such as yourself). Microsoft has chosen, so far, to ignore this.

 

Maybe  you can succeed in convincing Microsoft to fix their PDF save feature to at least handle OpenType CFF fonts correctly.

 

            - Dov

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Legend
December 22, 2019

Which CC subscription do you have? The all apps subscription does include Acrobat already. 

    davide34393567
    davide34393567Author
    Participating Frequently
    December 22, 2019

    I just have the Photoshop/Lightroom subscription. I don't really need the other apps, or Acrobat for anything but this.

    Dov Isaacs
    Dov Isaacs
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    December 22, 2019

    Exactly how are you creating the PDF file from Microsoft Word? If you are running Windows, there are multiple ways of creating PDF from Word. If you create PDF by using Acrobat's Save as Adobe PDF menu item in Word or the Create Adobe PDF function in the ribbon, text using Adobe Garamond Pro will appear as such in the resultant PDF file, Adobe Garamond Pro being properly embedded in the PDF file.

     

    However if you create PDF by using general Save as function and selecting the PDF option, you are using Microsoft's own PDF creation which cannot properly handle OpenType CFF fonts, i.e. it doesn't know how to properly embed them in PDF files it generates. Thus the font substitution.

     

    Use Acrobat's PDF creation from Word and the problem will go away, again assuming that this is Windows.

     

               - Dov

    - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
      davide34393567
      davide34393567Author
      Participating Frequently
      December 22, 2019

      I don't have Adobe Acrobat installed - so there's no way to embed fonts properly in a PDF without buying Acrobat?

      Dov Isaacs
      Dov IsaacsCorrect answer
      Legend
      December 22, 2019

      To answer your question, yes, currently in order to embed any OpenType CFF font in a PDF file created from within Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, you need Acrobat. Even within Adobe, we've complained to Microsoft about this bug/shortcoming in their PDF creation (since we hear about it from customers such as yourself). Microsoft has chosen, so far, to ignore this.

       

      Maybe  you can succeed in convincing Microsoft to fix their PDF save feature to at least handle OpenType CFF fonts correctly.

       

                  - Dov

      - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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