- #HOW TO EMBED FONTS IN ADOBE ACROBAT PRO DC HOW TO#
- #HOW TO EMBED FONTS IN ADOBE ACROBAT PRO DC PDF#
#HOW TO EMBED FONTS IN ADOBE ACROBAT PRO DC PDF#
Given this list of different options, it should be clear that the subset embedding method is the best way to use a font in a PDF document: The font will always be there when needed, but we are also not wasting any space by adding the complete font when we don’t need it. There is no need to embed any other glyphs, so you end up with the smalls possible PDF file. In this case, you can embed only the glyphs for “S” and “O” and you can render this title. Let’s say you have a book titled “SOS” – the title is set in a font that is not used anywhere else in the book. This is very similar to an embedded font, but in this case, only those “glyphs” (these are the “drawings” of a character that appear in your PDF viewer, or on a printed page) that are actually used in the file (or on a certain page) are embedded. Also, in the case where you only need a few characters that are set in a certain font, the whole font would have to be embedded. fonts for Asian languages), that would expand the file size dramatically. The drawback of this approach is that some fonts are huge (e.g. This means, the font “travels” with the PDF file and is always available when the file is being displayed or printer.
How exactly this situation gets handled depends on what software you are using to process the PDF file, and if it’s a viewer, or a PDF printer. In this case, the PDF document will only contain a reference to a font, and if that font is not available, it will either be substituted or the PDF document cannot be processed.
#HOW TO EMBED FONTS IN ADOBE ACROBAT PRO DC HOW TO#
Before we talk about how to embed fonts in a PDF file, let’s take a step back and get an idea about how fonts can be used in a PDF file.
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