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About Font Substitution

May 24, 2012 9:57 PM

If a font is used by the writer of a PDF and the viewer's PC does not have that font, what happens?

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  • Deepak Chauhan
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    1. Deepak Chauhan,
    May 24, 2012 11:51 PM   in reply to ThomasAJ01
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    Hi,

     

    Either Reader tries to substitute the misisng fonts with the nearby sub font, or you would see a row of dots appears in the lines of text that contain the missing symbol.

     

    Please refer to the link to learn more about the Fonts in PDF files. http://www.prepressure.com/pdf/basics/fonts

     

    Hope this helps !!!

     

    Regards,

     
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    2. ThomasAJ01,
    May 25, 2012 12:12 AM   in reply to ThomasAJ01
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    Thanks for the link - very interesting.

     

    However I am very puzzled about Helvetica.

     

    Most PCs do not have it as it is expensive and yet most organizations use it in their PDFs (from my experience).

     

    So as far as I can tell it is substituted by ArialMT (File>properties).

     

    Any comments anyone?

     
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  • Deepak Chauhan
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    3. Deepak Chauhan,
    May 25, 2012 1:36 AM   in reply to ThomasAJ01
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    There is nothing much you can do with Reader. The best practice is to embed the font while creating PDF.

     
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    4. ThomasAJ01,
    May 25, 2012 3:05 PM   in reply to Deepak Chauhan
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    Sorry but I do not fully understand.

     

    Are you saying that if the organizations embed Helvetica then Arial MT will *not* be used as a substitute.

     

    By organizations I am referring to banks, gas suppliers etc.

     

    BTW how can I tell what fonts have been embedded in a PDF.

     
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