Acrobat reader dc not showing properties under font tab

[Jenna23]

I have an indesign document (which is completely made up of linked photoshop documents) that i exported as a PDF. I need to embed the fonts. When I go to font tab under properties, where I should see the embedded fonts, there's nothing. it's completely blank. The fonts show in the PDF fine. But I can't confirm that they're embedded since the properties/fonts area is blank. So frustrating!! Can someone help?

Thanks! Jennifer

[try67]

Not sure why you can't see the fonts information, but even if you could you won't be able to embed the fonts using Reader.

This is something you should be doing in InDesign, when creating the PDF.

[Jenna23]

Yes! you're right. I export my InDesign doc to PDF. When I got to view that file, with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, the expected embedded fonts are not in the file>properties>font window. They show up when I do similar export with a photoshop doc, but don't show up when i do it with the Indesign doc made up of that same photoshop doc (as one of 16 pieces of the entire book.)

Hope this makes sense.

Thank for your help!!!

[Test Screen Name]

You need to make the text from the start using InDesign. Or, if you must do it in Photoshop (not recommended) don't involve InDesign. Combine PDFs using Acrobat.

[Jenna23]

Oh....I had the text in inDesign originally. Converted it to photoshop to manipulate the text with text on a path. I'll check out if that's available in inDesign. That makes sense. Thank you so much for your help!!! Much appreiciated!

J

[try67 · Accepted solution]

Also, you wrote that the file is "completely made up of linked photoshop documents". If that's the case then it only contains images, not actual text, and therefore there's no font information to display.

[Jenna23]

Thank you so much for your replay. The linked Photoshop documents each contain text. Some are text in text boxes and some are "text on a path." I can imagine that InDesign is seeing these as images and not as text, and is therefore not treating them as text.  ??

I've experimented a lot to see how it's handled. When I make a PDF from any one of the Photoshop files, Adobe Acrobat Reader DC sees the fonts and lists them in the file>properties>font window as expected. So it appears to see the text as text when dealing directly with photoshop. However, with InDesign doc, it doesn't seem to recognize the text as text.

Also, I am doing this all through InDesign because  I need to create ONE PDF (publishing a book) to upload for printing. InDesign is allowing me to create one doc (albeit it's composed on 16 linked photoshop docs) in one PDF to upload one file. I believe this is what the printer requires BUT the printer keeps emphasizing the importance of embedded fonts. ARGH!

Thank you so much for your help! Let me know if you have further thoughts/suggestions!!

[Test Screen Name]

The thing about many text effects is that they cannot actually be done with fonts. They have to be done by a graphics editor which starts with the font and then distorts the characters. After this they are just like every other graphic.

You should check your requirements carefully.

* If it is "all text is in the form of embedded fonts, and searchable" you cannot easily do this

* If it is "all font used must be embedded" then graphics don't stop this.