So it’s a good idea to know how to handle fonts in your PDF documents when working with Foxit PhantomPDF. The ability to embed fonts affects the document at all levels, including on your screen. To save space, you can choose to unembed fonts using the PDF Optimizer: (Note that if the “Actual Font” is different from the font title, it means a font is not embedded, and is being replaced with a different font that is available within PhantomPDF.) To view current fonts, both embedded and otherwise, do this: Here’s how to choose which fonts to embed from within the PhantomPDF printer: Users will see the original font that you used in your document. You may decide to embed only some of the fonts due to size restrictions, as each embedded font causes the file size to increase slightly, or due to licensing issues with the fonts used.Įmbedding fonts means that those fonts will be used instead of font substitution when users view or print. With PhantomPDF, you have the ability to embed all fonts, non-standard fonts, a specific list of fonts or even no fonts at all.
Using PDF software such as Foxit PhantomPDF to create your document makes this relatively easy. To ensure that the person viewing the document is able to open the file and see the content in the same font used to create the document, you must embed the fonts into the file. This occurs when the creator of the document a font that they have installed on their computer, but you (the document reader) don’t have installed. That can change the look, page flow, and readability of the document. When this happens, the application used to open the file will substitute a font of its choosing for the missing fonts. The ability to embed the fonts you use ranks among the top reasons why PDF software like PhantomPDF is a great choice for creating documents.Įver get a popup warning that certain fonts are missing when you try to open a document? Then you know why embedding fonts can be critical.
So it’s important that the same font used in the software you use to create the PDF is also seen by whoever reads your PDF file, no matter what program they use to open it. When you create a professional document, of course you ensure that the images are correct, the content has no grammatical or spelling mistakes, and that you use good typography to convey your message with text.
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