Fonts: To embed, or not to embed.
Guess what, the choice is not yours. Adobe has made that choice for you. Here's why.
I'm assuming that all of you have heard by now, that it is always recommended that you embed fonts when creating a PDF. This is so any viewer of the PDF, on any platform will see the same thing that the author of the document saw when creating it.
There are some caveats to this. More and more people are using a PDF viewer other than Acrobat. If you've ever used one, you would immediately know why. They open the PDF in a moment, as opposed to the long drawn out process when in Acrobat.
In addition, Acrobat does not embed the fonts that it installs on your system, (the logic behind this is: if someone is looking at the PDF, they must be using Acrobat, which means they have the same fonts installed on their system.) But as I already said above, if you are using a different PDF viewer you're out of luck.
If you get a little carried away, and that designer in you, starts to creep into your documents, you may be tempted to use fonts, that are on your machine, but not included in the standard set that are installed when you installed Adobe Reader, Acrobat, or Distiller. In that case, you have to be certain that the fonts you have are licensed, and that you have the right to distribute them. If not, Acrobat will not be able to embed them when you save the document.
You could check to see if your fonts have been embeded by opening the Properties dialogue box, under the file menu, clicking on the fonts tab, and checking to see if the word "embedded" or "embedded subset" is next to each font name.
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