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Topic: Re: how to fix fonts not embedded (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Prepress and Print, Msg: 105645
From: isaacs
Date: 2/8/2004 01:49 PM

At 2/7/2004 03:12 PM, p-pdf-prepress Listmanager wrote:
>From: "LeonardR"
>
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>
>At 06:19 AM 2/7/2004, p-pdf-prepress Listmanager wrote:
>>The easiest way I use to embed fonts which are not embedded in a PDF
>>without having to purchase expensive additional software, is to activate
>>the missing fonts on your workstation (if you have the fonts that is) and
>>just print the PDF to a postscript file and simply redistill the PS, voila.
>
> Voila - you have a potentially VERY different PDF than you started
>with!!
>
> Redistillation (aka refrying) is NOT an approved technique by
>Adobe due to the numerous translations/transformations that the data goes
>through - FIRST in the downgrading from PDF->PS (as PDF's support a number
>of things that PS doesn't) and then again in the actual distillation
>process based on the Distiller job options.
>
> Redistillation - JUST SAY NO!
>
>
>Leonard


Just to add to Leonard's excellent advice ...

Especially since PDF 1.4 in Acrobat 5, PDF is a superset of PostScript,
no longer a subset. Any number of features in your existing PDF file,
including indications of crop, trim, and bleed boxes; annotations; ICC
color management; forms fields; and transitions as well layers and
transparency. Spot colors can also be "lost."

Refrying (aka redistillation) is NOT a safe tool, hence not a valid too
for embedding fonts or solving any other problem.

- Dov