How To Check Font Embedding In Pdf
When you email someone a copy of your Word document or PowerPoint presentation and they don’t have a font installed, Microsoft Office shows that document with the default font instead. This can mess up the whole layout and make the document look completely different, but you can fix this by embedding fonts into your documents.
How This Works
When you enable this option, Office takes the font file from your system and embeds a copy of it into the Office document. This increases the size of the document, but anyone who opens the document will be able to see the document with its intended font.
You can only do this in the Windows versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Publisher. This doesn’t work in the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, or web versions of Word or PowerPoint.
This also only works if the font you’re trying to embed allows embedding. The font files on your system have “embedding permissions” in them. Office respects these permissions, so you may not be able to embed some fonts, or the resulting document may not be editable after fonts are embedded. In other words, the recipient may only be able to view and print the document, not view it. It depends on the fonts you’re using.
How to Embed Fonts
To embed a font, click the “File” menu while working on a document in the Windows versions of Word, PowerPoint, or Publisher.
Click the “Options” link at the bottom of the menu that appears.
Click “Save” in the left pane.
Under “Preserve fidelity when sharing this document”, check the “Embed fonts in the file” option.
To reduce the resulting document’s file size, be sure to check the “Embed only the characters used in the document (best for reducing file size)” option. Office will only embed a font if it’s used in the document. Otherwise, Office will embed other fonts from your system into the file, even if you haven’t used them.
Leave the “Do not embed common system fonts” option enabled. This will also help reduce the file size by omitting Windows system fonts that the recipient likely has installed.
Click “OK” to save your changes and save the document normally. The fonts you used in the document will be embedded into the file.
I'm using Foxit Reader as default PDF viewer. How can I see what type of font is used for a selected part of a PDF document?
(If this can only be done with another software, I'd prefer a freeware as I don't want to pay for just viewing selected fonts' types.)
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If you are using PDF-XChange Viewer, do this:
- Select your text with the text selecting tool
- Right-click the selection
- Click on 'Text Properties..'
- Choose 'Formatting' (on the left)
- There is an arrow on the left of your selected text (which comes on the right part of the
window) - You click on it and you get all the information you want.
In both Foxit Reader and Adobe Reader if you go to File > Properties and then click on the Fonts tab you will be able to see a full list of fonts available in that document, however, there isn't any features in these basic PDF readers that will let you select some text and view the properties for that text to see exactly which font it uses.
For that you need Foxit PDF Editor, Adobe Acrobat or some other PDF editor.
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In Adobe Acrobat X Pro (not for free), you can use the Edit Document Text tool to find out about the font:
- Click Tools on the documents menubar in the top right corner to show the side menu of tools.
- Open the Content area in the right sidebar and locate the Edit Document Text tool.
- Select some text
- Right-click and select Properties..
- The Text tab of the properties dialog shows the font (you can also change it)
In Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro, you can use the TouchUp Text Tool which is found under (Tools >Advanced Editing >TouchUp Text Tool).
This might also work in other Acrobat versions, but the Tool might be buried somewhere else in Acrobat's menus.
I don't know of any way to do what you want other than using some very expensive commercial PDF processing software (such as Enfocus' PitStop or callas' pdfToolbox4).
The closest you can get is the pdffonts.exe commandline utility. That is contained in the XPDF-based tool collection, available here: http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html (Download: ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdfbin-win-3.03.zip ).
If you run
the result will show all fonts used on page 22. To see all fonts used in the complete document, just run
While it doesn't preserve layout particularly well, Libre Office http://www.libreoffice.org is able to import PDF files.After importing a pdf, if you click on a text block it will tell you what font was used.
If the font is installed on your computer, then maybe copying the text to some word processor does the trick? And even when not installed, some word processors might still show the requested name in their font dialog.
(Other than that: a screen capture and WhatTheFont! might help, if it's worth the trouble. Or select the text, and then 'print' the selection to a new PDF document, to see what its font properties shows then?)
Meanwhile I found a different method to list fonts used in a PDF (and indicate wether they're embedded or not), which uses Ghostscript only (no need for additional third party utilities). Unfortunately this also does NOT satisfy your requirement to learn about a font used for highlighted text.
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This method uses a little utility program, written in PostScript, shipping with the source code of Ghostscript. Look in the toolbin subdir for the pdf_info.ps file.
The included comments say you should run it like this in order to list fonts used, media sizes used
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I did run it on a local example file. Here is the result:
Sounds like the fonts tab in Adobe Reader is an easy solution.
But another way would be to select the text, copy and paste into Word, and you should be able to determine the front in Word if it copies the formatting like it did for me.
Rowan's answer is fine, and if you really need to narrow it down to a small portion of a complex document, try to re-print a subset to another PDF (there are excellent free PDF printers, if you don't have one), and check the font properties of the resulting file.
An easier solution is just to use Adobe Reader X and to right-click anywhere in the document, choose 'Document Properties', then click on the tab 'Fonts'. There you see a list of all fonts used in the document.
Another solution is to open the PDF file with Adobe Illustrator, if the fonts are not streamlined you'll be able to know which fonts you are using.
In Adobe Reader XI go to File -> Properties and click the Fonts tab. They are all there. Super easy, and free
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