Non-embedded fonts in PDF

Report · Apr 03, 2008

I am a prepress tech and I am not familiar with framemaker. I have received a PDF from a customer and when checking the status of the fonts with pitstop plugin, I have non-embedded fonts. Here is some info from the customer:
I am using FrameMaker 7.1. The last file I created the PDF by doing the
normal file print and using the PDF printer. Had a post script created
and then distilled it. I am going to try to do a file save as pdf and
see if that works.

Any general direction to go in to have a PDF with fonts emdedded?

Report · Apr 03, 2008

I can think of only two scenarios under which this could happen, and
neither of them have anything to do with Framemaker:

1) He's not using "Press Quality" job options to distill. His job
options file either does not embed fonts, or allows Distiller to
generate a PDF with problem fonts not embedded, perhaps with a warning,
perhaps not. "Smallest file size" has "Embed all fonts" turned off. This
would definitely cause it.

2) He's using fonts that do not allow embedding, or Distiller can't find
the fonts. As such, he had to resort to using something less than "Press
Quality" (or to changing Press Quality so it will still generate a PDF
even without all fonts embedded).

Either way the fix is to 1) use good fonts/tell Distiller where to find
them, and 2) distill with Press Quality job options. Or send you the
font and have you install it. :^) Because Framemaker cannot embed fonts
in the PDFs that Distiller creates, this problem has nothing to do with
Frame. Save as PDF shouldn't make any difference, as that relies on
Distiller too.

In a pinch, he could re-print his PDF from Acrobat to a new PDF and
check "Print as Image", but this will give you 600 dpi max output
resolution for the type.

--
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com

Report · Apr 03, 2008

Thank you,

I had initially thought that it maybe was a distiller issue, but I haven't
had a chance to explore the distiller settings with the customer yet. Thank
you for narrowing things down to the distiller settings and not a framemaker
scenario.

Thanks again, Randy