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Re: Need help understanding how fonts work in PDFs

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From: Steven_Wild
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:52
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Thanks to you both for your replies. Is there any way I can check the fonts on my system to see if any of my fonts are set to "no embedding"? I use a dual core PC, but also have a G4 iMac, in case there is some software that can be used.

On Herb's advice, I've had a look on the web, and found this statement:
"Your two possible suggestions led me to examine the settings used to
create the PDF and I found that the one for "smallest size PDF" was
inadvertently chosen. This led to the font not being embedded."

Can you confirm that this is correct? It seems rather silly that any PDF created for web will end up with the fonts not displaying correctly. I have a feeling that this isn't correct because I have created a lot of PDFs for my company's website and, even though I haven't viewed them on computers with a different font set, I'm sure there would have been problems with the appearance of the PDF if fonts had been substituted. Does text reflow/overset in a PDF if fonts are substituted?

Thanks again,

Steven
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