Word Not Embedding Fonts in PDF

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I noticed that one of my documents looked like caca when exported to
PDF. Suspecting the problem, I disabled the bitmapping of unembeddable
fonts.

Then the document was all in Helvetica.

Why would word not be able to embed the font in a PDF.

The font embedability is EDITABLE.

I can use other PDF creators and the font is embedded.
 
If I try to save with the box checked, I get the error:
"File is in use by another application or user."
 
A possibility is that the font is not 'enabled' for export: many fonts that
come with Windows have restricted user rights. If you go to the FONT applet
in the Control Panel, you should be able to sort fonts by Embeddability
(what an awful word!).
 
A possibility is that the font is not 'enabled' for export: many fonts that
come with Windows have restricted user rights. If you go to the FONT applet
in the Control Panel, you should be able to sort fonts by Embeddability
(what an awful word!).
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The ones I am working with now are not fonts that came with windows.
However, it is "editable".
 
There's a huge difference between editable and embeddable. The Microsoft
Typographical support site has a tool that lets you see all the attributes
assigned to a font. I'm sure you will find that they are disabled from
embedding.

Terry
 
There's a huge difference between editable and embeddable. The Microsoft
Typographical support site has a tool that lets you see all the attributes
assigned to a font. I'm sure you will find that they are disabled from
embedding.
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I have have this. It displays:

Editable embedding allowed; fonts may be embedded in documents, but
must only be installed temporarily on the remote system.

The 2nd least restrictive of the 4 levels.


Other options:

1. Installed Embedding Allowed
3. Print & Preview Embedding Allowed
4. No embedding allowed.
 
I actually have to correct my original post. If I disable the Bitmap
Fonts option Word *IS* is embedding fonts into the PDF file--at least
according to the properties in the Acrobat viewer. However, the
Acrobat viewer does not display the fonts and uses the Helvetica
default instead.

If I print to PDF outsider word (rather than save as PDF) the document
appears fine.
 
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