Embedded completely for Composite

Allows you to check if the composite fonts in the document are completely embedded.

Composite fonts (also called “double-byte” fonts) enable you to display special characters of foreign languages, e.g. Asian languages. They are also called double-byte fonts because every character is determined by 2 bytes (16 bits). Double-byte char­acters may not always be supported in a later stage of the PDF workflow.

Embedding fonts in a PDF document means that every character of this font is copied and stored in the PDF document. This is useful if you create PDF documents to be displayed on different systems and to be printed on different devices: these are often systems that do not contain exactly the same fonts.

Also, if a font has been completely embedded, you can still edit the text in the PDF file that uses the font in question, even though the font has not been installed on your computer.

Note: Starting in Adobe Acrobat 6.0 and PitStop Pro 6.0 and later, you can only edit text using a font that is installed on your system, regardless of its embedding.

Embedding a font as a subset means that only those characters of the font that are actually used in the text are embedded. This reduces the file size by not including superfluous font information. Moreover, you may not want to embed composite fonts completely, because they may contain several thousands of characters and the majority of them will not be used anyway.

Note: Embedding one complete standard font increases PDF file size by approximately 30k to 40k for Type 1 fonts, and more for TrueType or composite fonts.

Possible fixes

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