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paul crouch
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May 1, 2018
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Embedding fonts in an existing PDF

  • May 1, 2018
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Good afternoon,

I’ve been trying without success to embed fonts in an existing PDF using Acrobat Pro DC, and would much appreciate some help.

The fonts are Adobe Garamond Pro Regular/Italic and Rats Regular/Alternate (whose license does allow embedding), and both are present in my system’s font folders.

Thanks to help given to some other questioners, I have found the ‘Embed missing fonts’ command (Print production – Preflight – Acrobat Pro DC 2015 Profiles - PDF fixups). And after running ‘Analyse and fix’, I have got the green checkmark and the assurance: ‘Preflight profile “Embed missing fonts” did not find any errors or warnings’.

However, I am also told here: ‘Embedded files: none’. And indeed, at first, under ‘Fonts Used in this Document’ (File - Document properties, Fonts tab), I find no fonts at all are listed. But then when I choose ‘Edit PDF’, the long list that now appears (still under ‘Fonts Used in this Document’) consists only of embedded Times New Roman items. Times New Roman, though, was not a font I used in this document (which I created myself), and the only fonts I did use, the Garamond and Rats, are not even mentioned here, let alone shown as embedded.

Perhaps I should add that in Page Display (Preferences – Categories), ‘Use Local Fonts’ is selected.

Sorry to display such ignorance, but I’m using Acrobat for the first time.

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Correct answer Dov Isaacs

We would really need to see you post a sample of the PDF file, preferably before and after in order to begin to analyze what is really going on here. Based on your initial description, it almost sounds like the document didn't have any text using fonts at all; perhaps all the text was outlined or rasterized?!? Post the samples and we can better assist you.

          - Dov

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Dov Isaacs
Dov IsaacsCorrect answer
Legend
May 2, 2018

We would really need to see you post a sample of the PDF file, preferably before and after in order to begin to analyze what is really going on here. Based on your initial description, it almost sounds like the document didn't have any text using fonts at all; perhaps all the text was outlined or rasterized?!? Post the samples and we can better assist you.

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
paul crouch
Participant
May 2, 2018

The document as I created it in Photoshop Elements included text layers using those two fonts. I saved the file as a PDF after flattening it. Could I have saved it as a PDF without flattening it? Would the fonts then have been listed in the Document Properties on opening the PDF in Acrobat, and could I then have embedded them? As you see, I am rather out of my depth. Thanks for your response!

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 2, 2018

Could it be that you responded by e-mail and tried attaching a document?

You need to use dropbox or similar. The forum does not allow attaching files.

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