Specifications
If the font is not available, it will have to be replaced by a font which is available on the recipient's
computer. This process is called “PDF font substitution”. PDF font substitution may affect the
appearance and output of your documents.
Finding exact font names
A given font can have different names. And the name of the font which you see in your source
application is not necessarily the same as its “real” internal font name.
For example, the Adobe Type 1 font “Times” as you see it in your word processing or desktop
publishing program also has a PostScript name: “Times-Roman”. The same applies to its TrueType
counterpart “Times New Roman”: its name appears in Adobe Acrobat as “TimesNewRoman”
(without spaces).
Consequently, if you need to enter a font name manually in one of the dialog boxes of Enfocus
PitStop Server, it is important that you type the font name exactly as it is spelled in Adobe Acrobat.
You can use a PDF file containing the desired font to find the exact spelling of the name.
To find the exact font name:
1. Use any application to create a one-page document with the font(s) of which you want to know
the exact name.
2. Create a PDF file of the document.
3. Open the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat and do one of the following:
• In Adobe Acrobat 4, choose File > Document Info > Fonts .
• In Adobe Acrobat 5, 6, 7 or 8, choose File > Document Properties > Fonts .
4. Write down the name of the font(s), using the exact spelling, capitalization, and hyphenation of
the name as it appears in the Font Info dialog box.
5. Click OK button.
10.3 Embedding versus subsetting fonts
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
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