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Anonymous
May 13, 2010
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Font substitution when saving as PDF

  • May 13, 2010
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When converting Word documents to PDF my Arial Bold font is being replaced by a Myriad font. How do I correct this?

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    Bill12
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    May 13, 2010

    If you use ctrl-D in Acrobat, you can check the fonts and embedding. I assume this is the result that you are indicating. To embed the fonts, you have to use the options of Acrobat. For the Adobe PDF printer, select the properties and select the press or print job settings. You can do the same thing for the create PDF options in WORD. You can also use the Standard job settings, but may have to change the font embedding features of the job options and save to a new name if you want to keep the rest of the standard options.

    If you happen to use a non-standard font, you may still not be able to embed the font if it is not qualified for embedding. I would be surprised unless you are not using the standard system font. You have to be careful with fonts since the name does not necessarily make the font identical.

    I use a job settings file from IEEE as my default and always get all fonts embedded. You can modify or select an appropriate job settings and make that default in the printer settings on the START menu.

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    Lindald22
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    May 19, 2010

    I've got this problem too and have been struggling with it for weeks. My document contains only Arial fonts, with numbered Headings in Arial Bold. When I print to PDF, everything converts correctly, but when I use PDFMaker, the Arial Bold fonts change to Times New Roman or something similar.

    I've followed the instructions in Rick Borstein's article on embedding fonts, with the same results.

    I created the templates for these documents when I was using Word 2003 and Acrobat 8.0. They worked perfectly for years and I never had an issue. Now I am using Word 2007 and Acrobat 9.0. I don't have access to the prior versions (new job).

    When I first opened the template created in Word 2003, it converted correctly. But if I just look at the styles, then things start to fall apart. Also, if I save the document from a .doc to a .docx or vice versa, then the font changes in the conversion.

    I really don't know if this is an Acrobat issue or a Word issue, but some guidance would be appreciated.

    Linda

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    Bill12
    Inspiring
    May 19, 2010

    It is not clear what job settings you are using. If it is the Standard settings, try one related to print or press. Font embedding is an issue of the job settings file. It is likely that your fonts are not even embedded (use ctrl-D to check - each font should include the word embedded if they are, possibly including "subset").

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