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navab44203011
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September 9, 2017
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Editing a PDF created non-embedded fonts!

  • September 9, 2017
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I have a document that I created in Word and saved as a PDF with embedded fonts. Now I need to remove the header at the top of each new chapter in the document. This is much easier to do in Acrobat than in Word... or at least it would be, if it weren't for one extremely frustrating bug in Acrobat: every time I try to edit the PDF text on this page in Acrobat, suddenly the font of the chapter heading becomes non-embedded!

I have verified: before editing I check the document properties, and the fonts are all embedded. I make any edit - anywhere on the page, whether add, delete, change font color, whatever - and check the document properties, to find that I now have a non-embedded font.

What's the workaround for this? Is there any way of re-embedding the fonts after editing the text?

TIA for your help

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Legend
September 10, 2017

This is not a reliable way to check because it has no status for fonts not yet shown. Use preflight if you want to check whether all are embedded. 

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navab44203011Author
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September 10, 2017

Thanks. I'm a noob at this; how do you use preflight to check whether fonts are embedded?

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Legend
September 9, 2017

What do you see in document properties, before and after that lets you determined that it is embedded before and not after?

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navab44203011Author
Participant
September 10, 2017

Before:

After:

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