Embedding fonts

Using the Enfocus Preflight Profile Editor, you can specify in a Preflight Profile whether a PDF document should:

• Embed all fonts
• Embed all fonts except the standard 14 fonts
• Embed all fonts except those that can be emulated for viewing

Embedding a font implies that the entire font, i.e. every single character of the font, is copied into your PDF document. This is particularly useful if your document needs to be displayed and printed on a different computer, which may not have the same fonts installed.

Furthermore, if the entire font is embedded, you might be able to edit the text in the PDF document on a computer that does not have the font installed. Note that embed­ding an entire font – a standard roman font typically contains 256 characters – will increase the file size of the PDF document by 30k to 40k for PostScript Type 1 fonts, or more for TrueType fonts.