Embedding Fonts Acrobat Pro X For Mac
Embedding fonts in your pdf file allows anyone who opens your file to see the document as you intended. If you don’t embed a font, the pdf viewer will substitute a font if it is not available on the computer viewing the document, and the result usually isn’t what you intended. To determine if all of your fonts are embedded in your pdf file, open your pdf file in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader. From the File menu, select “Properties” From the Document Properties dialog box, click on the “Fonts” tab, which is circled below. The Document Properties dialog box. On the fonts tab, the words “Embedded Subset” or “Embedded” must appear next to each font, as shown in the example below.
The fonts tab on the Document Properties dialog box. If a subset of a font is embedded, this means that only the characters used in that particular document are embedded. This is acceptable for a thesis or dissertation, because these documents will not be edited in their pdf form. If you expect someone to be editing the pdf file in the future, embedding the entire font is a good idea.
NOTE This article is adapted from by Donna L. Copyright 2009. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc. And Adobe Press.
To touch up a word or line of text in an Acrobat document, simply use the TouchUp Text tool in Acrobat. Here's how:. Right-click (Mac: Control-click) the toolbar well and choose Advanced Editing to open the Advanced Editing toolbar. Select the TouchUp Text tool from the Advanced Editing toolbar and click the tool within the text you want to edit. The paragraph is surrounded by a bounding box. Drag the I-beam pointer to select all or part of the paragraph, or position the I-beam within the text you want to edit.
Use the TouchUp Text tool to make simple changes to the content of a page or to add new text. Type the replacement text or add new text at the position of the I-beam pointer. Click outside the highlighted area to deselect the text. You can modify properties of new text as well as text already in the document, including the following:. Font and font size.
Fill and stroke options. Font embedding and subsetting.
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Spacing between words and characters. Baseline adjustments Follow these steps:. With the TouchUp Text tool, first click the row of text or select the words or characters you want to edit. Right-click (Mac: Control-click) the text to open the shortcut menu. Choose Properties. The TouchUp Properties dialog box opens. NOTE Sometimes the touch-up results aren't what you expect—often related to fonts used in the source program.
For example, many documents seem to use bold or italic text, but it's just a bold or italic text appearance. In such cases, unless you're using a named font such as Arial Bold or Arial Italic, when you try to touch up text in Acrobat you won't have an exact match for the replacement font, since Acrobat doesn't simulate a bold or italic appearance. Tips for Tranquil Text Tweaking Keep these notes in mind when touching up text:. If you need to select an entire paragraph, use the shortcut key combination Ctrl-A (Mac: Command-A). To add new text, with the TouchUp Text tool active, Ctrl-click (Mac: Option-click) within the document where you want to add the text. The New Text Font dialog box opens with the default options set (Arial text and horizontal writing mode). Select the font and writing mode you want, and click OK.
The default text 'New Text' appears on the page. Select it, and then type the new text.
Click outside the new line of text to finish the process. Only fonts with a vertical writing mode will write vertically.
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An error message means that you've selected a horizontal-only font. If the text isn't behaving as text, maybe it isn't actually text. Scanned text that hasn't been captured behaves like an image. If you add text and it won't wrap to the next line, choose Edit Preferences TouchUp (Mac: Acrobat Preferences TouchUp) and select the Enable Text Word Wrapping checkbox.