Font embedding with

[tuqqer@adobeforums.com]

I daily use the Touchup Text Tool to alter a phone number in a PDF that has Text Fields placed throughout it. It's a great feature, being able to alter text in a PDF with text fields (without removing all the text fields every time).

However, I constantly get this error message after editing the text and then saving the new document:

"The font could not be embedded because the font stored on the page and the system font are encoded differently and the encodings could not be resolved."

How do I fix this? I've changed every character and font to be all Ariel, thinking that the error was about some odd font. But that didn't stop the problem.

Any clues as to how to embed the fonts correctly?

[pjonesCET@adobeforums.com]

You don't its been that way since Acrobat 6 and will continue in 9.

what it is in order for embedded to work you have to use a version of a Font owned by Adobe or a Font from a Foundry which has an agreement with adobe to allow for embedding of their fonts. so unless the other person and you have the exact same fonts, You will get this message.

What happens then is they you a subset which amounts to Adobe Type Manager Technology to fake out or mimic the font intended.

To the untrained masses doing so, 99.99% won't notice the difference. Now for that 01% percent and Pros that work with Fonts minute, by minute, hour by, day by day. They will notice. And they may or may be willing to buy the required font to make look exactly right or not.

In most cases it good enough to pass anyway. So just ignore the warning. for most people its just a nuisance.

[tuqqer@adobeforums.com]

Great reply, pjones, much appreciated!

It sounds like nothing breaks with this error message, and all parties can see all the text, and everyone can still fill out the form digitally. That's all that counts for me; I don't really care about font accuracy at that level.

Excellent, thanks again for the clarity.

[pjonesCET@adobeforums.com]

For the vast majority they will never notice. when you get the warning then Acrobat just uses a subset.

Happy PDF creation! :-)