Installing embedded fonts

[Herb...@adobeforums.com]

If a font is embedded in a pdf, and its embedding attribute is known to
be "installable", what do you have to do to install that font on the
receiving system?

Is the process different for different versions, or for full Acrobat vs.
Acrobat Reader or Adobe Reader?

-Herb

[Gary_A.@adobeforums.com]

In order to install a font on a system you have to purchase it. You can't "extract" an embedded font so that it can be installed elsewhere.

[Aandi_...@adobeforums.com]

Acrobat does not support the concept or the practice of installable
embedding.

Aandi Inston

[Herb...@adobeforums.com]

Gary_A.@adobeforums.com wrote:

> In order to install a font on a system you have to purchase it. You can't "extract" an embedded font so that it can be installed elsewhere.

Sorry,Gary, but that simply is not the case, by definition. And I'm not
talking about the varying arcane ways of extracting embedded fonts from
PDF's.

True, MOST commercial fonts appropriately restrict their embedding to at
most "editable", and do not allow installation of embedded fonts. Some,
however, do, and this includes some that are distributed with some
versions of MS Office.

It also includes many freeware and shareware fonts.

In fact, if you just OPEN an MSWord document that contains an embedded,
installable font that you don't already have installed, it will go ahead
and install it - whether you want it to or not!

- Herb

Appendix: Font Embedding Flags:
No Embedding Allowed
Embedding Allowed for read only.
Embedding Allowed for document editing.
Embedding Allowed, installable.

[Herb...@adobeforums.com]

Aandi_...@adobeforums.com wrote:

OK - Thank you.

So a way around it (for legally installable embedded fonts) would be to
embed them in Word documents that accompany the pdf, since MS DOES
support both the concept and the practice :)

- Herb

[Gary_A.@adobeforums.com]

Sorry, Herb, but you asked about fonts embedded in PDFs so that simply IS the case - by definition.

[Herb...@adobeforums.com]

Gary_A.@adobeforums.com wrote:

> Sorry, Herb, but you asked about fonts embedded in PDFs so that simply IS the case - by definition.

Yep, given Aandi's answer, you're right. Sounds like just another small
battle in the MS/Apple/Adobe font history.

- Herb