Embedded fonts

[gracehjs]

I just tried reading a PDF and got the message that the font Arial-emb was missing. The document information says that this is :Installable, embedded subset(not installed). My question is - how do I install it?

Grace

[mwenz]

Grace, use the Name Gallery to select the instances, switch to the text tool if required to obtain the Text context toolbar and choose Arial. If this was a multi-page PDF, you may need to do this on each page.

There is no font actually named Arial-emb. It's just a name used in the PDF to indicate Arial was used and that it is an embedded subset (often font names are altered in a PDF).

[gracehjs]

As this is not my document, I was hoping there was a way to install the emb fort. I do see others that are installed. And it does say it is installable.

[mwenz]

If you are opening this PDF in an Xara application, then just do what I mention.

If you are not opening this PDF in an Xara application, then ?

[gracehjs]

All I want to do is create an "email" version of the document, it is currently 8 mb and I can reduce it to 2mb by exporting as a PDF for email. So, I do not want to change anything in the document. When I look at it in XDP the font is not rendering quite right. The document is quite long and we will be doing this regularly, so I was hoping there was a way to install the font. As it just shows the fonts and not installed, there must be a way.

[mwenz]

Ok. I still don't know if I am following along well enough...

But you are creating the pdf and then opening it in what, your Xara application? Or Acrobat/Reader?

[gracehjs]

I am bringing the PDF into XDP and then saving it as a PDF with the option for email. This significantly reduces the size. But that step is useless if the fonts are screwed up.

[mwenz]

XDP uses the fonts as embedded in the PDF.

A PDF subsets the fonts and those names are changed. Sometimes the names are drastically changed, depending upon how the fonts were embeded and by what application.

You need to use the name gallery to select those fonts and change them to Arial (or whatever).

Then when you create a new PDF, the fonts will be embedded again.

And if you then reload that PDF, you may have to go through it all over again.

There is no other way.

[gracehjs]

Thanks all. We managed to get stuff sorted.