Judy,

You wrote:
>Does anyone know of a quick and easy way to check on font permissions?


Open Distiller, and select Settings > Edit Adobe PDF Settings. Choose the
Fonts category, and browse in the lists of fonts available in the different
locations (under Embedding, Font Source). Fonts that have a Lock icon to
the left of the font name do not allow embedding.

If you use Windows XP or later, you may also download a font properties
extension from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/TrueTypeProperty21.mspx
This will add several tabs to the font properties dialog box in the control
panel, including embedding permissions.




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Shlomo, thanks for these two tidbits. I was wondering about the Never Embed
window. There is a list of about 40 fonts there. My initial impression is
there should be no fonts that are told to never embed. I didn't put them
there so it must be the default. Why are they listed?

Regards,
Glenn

>>>
Open Distiller, and select Settings > Edit Adobe PDF Settings. Choose the
Fonts category, and browse in the lists of fonts available in the different
locations (under Embedding, Font Source). Fonts that have a Lock icon to the
left of the font name do not allow embedding.
>>>



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At 10:35 -0600 on 01/07/2010, Glenn Heckard wrote about Re: Check on
Font Permissions:

>Shlomo, thanks for these two tidbits. I was wondering about the Never Embed
>window. There is a list of about 40 fonts there. My initial impression is
>there should be no fonts that are told to never embed. I didn't put them
>there so it must be the default. Why are they listed?

Acrobat comes with a set of fonts that are part of the program and
are stored into a private folder for Acrobat's use. Since they are
included, there is no need to embed them into the PDF since there is
the assumption that they are accessible at viewing time. The Never
Embed list are these fonts. You can always override them when
creating a PDF so it is 100% Self-Contained but that just increases
the size of the file.

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That's what I thought. The problem is I distribute the PDFS for use at
conferences around the world so I don't know what fonts will be on user's
systems or even what platform so I have to always embed a subset for all
fonts. Thanks for verifying that.
Glenn

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Subject: Re: Check on Font Permissions

At 10:35 -0600 on 01/07/2010, Glenn Heckard wrote about Re: Check on Font
Permissions:

>Shlomo, thanks for these two tidbits. I was wondering about the Never
>Embed window. There is a list of about 40 fonts there. My initial
>impression is there should be no fonts that are told to never embed. I
>didn't put them there so it must be the default. Why are they listed?

Acrobat comes with a set of fonts that are part of the program and are
stored into a private folder for Acrobat's use. Since they are included,
there is no need to embed them into the PDF since there is the assumption
that they are accessible at viewing time. The Never Embed list are these
fonts. You can always override them when creating a PDF so it is 100%
Self-Contained but that just increases the size of the file.

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Au contraire ...

The "never embed" list of fonts are totally "system fonts" that "normally"
would be available to all Windows users (such as members of the Arial, Times
New Roman, Trebuchet, and Verdana TrueType font families). They absolutely
do NOT include any fonts that are installed with Acrobat.

As for the fonts in Acrobat's private font directory, make no assumptions
about their availability on other systems or in the future.

Best PDF workflow practices dictates that you should ALWAYS embed ALL fonts
in all PDF files (using the subset option to prevent unreasonable and unnecessary
file size bloat) to assure proper and accurate display and printing of your PDF
content's text in all situations.

- Dov


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Acrobat Talk [mailto:acrobat@lists.lassosoft.com] On Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg
> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 1:15 PM
> To: Acrobat Talk
> Subject: Re: Check on Font Permissions
>
> At 10:35 -0600 on 01/07/2010, Glenn Heckard wrote about Re: Check on
> Font Permissions:
>
> >Shlomo, thanks for these two tidbits. I was wondering about the Never Embed
> >window. There is a list of about 40 fonts there. My initial impression is
> >there should be no fonts that are told to never embed. I didn't put them
> >there so it must be the default. Why are they listed?
>
> Acrobat comes with a set of fonts that are part of the program and
> are stored into a private folder for Acrobat's use. Since they are
> included, there is no need to embed them into the PDF since there is
> the assumption that they are accessible at viewing time. The Never
> Embed list are these fonts. You can always override them when
> creating a PDF so it is 100% Self-Contained but that just increases
> the size of the file.

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