I would note that out of the 334 fonts I have installed on my system (including Microsoft, Adobe, Monotype and other foundry fonts), 313 all have the permissions level set to “Editable” or “Installable” meaning that they can be embedded, and only some 20 have a more restrictive setting. In your case, where you have to use a specific font, I think you will need to provide the font with the PDF, or else ask the font owner if they can change the embeddability setting of that font, or else use a different font. If nothing appears after the font name, the font has not and cannot be embedded. Next to the font name should appear “Embedded” or “Embedded subset”. (3) After running FormMagic, in the Document Properties in Acrobat, under the Fonts tab, there appears a list of all fonts in the PDF. If the font cannot be embedded, a warning will be displayed.
(2) You can try actually selecting the font in Acrobat: Select a text field, double-click it to open the Properties window in Acrobat, and select the font you’d like to choose. (1) Right-click the font file, choose properties, selecte the Details tab, and see the status there. There are several ways to see what the embeddability status of a font is. This is a bit weird, seeing as it’s a freely available font, so I’m not sure why they’d do that. The handwriting font you’re trying to use has the most restrictive setting applied to it: “No Embedding”, as can be seen from the screenshot. “Installable” is the most permissive level.įor FormMagic to successfully embed the font in the PDF, it’s embedding permission has to be either “3. I’ve looked into this more carefully than I had before, and the answer is as follows.Ī font file has something called “embedding permission”. This topic was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by ~~Ariel~~. Please let me know if you need more information
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The PDF also includes a link to the font I’m trying to embed – see text on page 182. Please find attached a few pages of the exported PDF, showing some of the more simple form layouts. But I don’t know if this is possible either. Helvetica > Arial > Sans serif.Īlternatively, a plan B would be to have the text field’s font editable by the teacher, – so they can type in the text (say as default Helvetica) and then change the font manually to the correct one. Or perhaps it’s possible to set a font default chain? like in a CSS style? eg. Is this possible? or do I need to use only web safe fonts? I assumed the font would be imbedded with the file with Formmagic but it doesn’t look like I’ve done it correctly. (The alignment and text size seemed to be working fine though) It all works fine for me when I test the PDF but when the client tries to use the file, only dots appear for the characters they type in the form field – as if they don’t have the font loaded. I was hoping to be able to embed that font in the final PDF, so it would be useable by the teacher regardless of their platform. I’ve set up my font preferences for all the text fields in InDesign through the ‘Forms and Buttons’ panel, including the font which is a specific one used by the department for all their workbooks (note: not a system font). Ideally I would like the font, alignment and size of the text to match the other worksheets.įormmagic sounded perfect to help me do this.
I have a group of workbooks set up in InDesign, with many activity sheets for the teacher to print out from the final exported PDF.įor a lot of the worksheets I have form fields added to the page so the teacher can add in text tailored to their classes if they wish, before printing the PDF pages.
I am working on project for a client in our state education department.
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