Embedding fonts in PDF documents

You can embed TTF, TTC, and Type 1 readfonts in PDF documents. Note that this is applicable only to the PDF driver, and not to the PDF (PCL convert) driver. To embed a font, you add the FontEmbed keyword to the entries for the fonts to embed.

To completely embed a font file in the output, you can use the FontEmbedFull keyword instead of FontEmbed. The FontEmbedFull keyword is supported for TTF fonts that do not use glyph-based output (for example, it is not supported for Indic texts).

Note:

The FontEmbedFull keyword results in large output PDF files.

How to embed a font depends on whether the font is already referenced in the driver file. See Editing font entries.

Example 55

Embedding a new font using a font substitution table

Font "Century" FontEmbed

 

Example 56

Embedding an already referenced font using driver file or substitution table

Original font entries:

Font "Arial" ReadFont "ARIAL.TTF" 
SelectPrefix "Arial" Codepage "Ansi"

Font "Arial_Underline" ReadFont "ARIAL.TTF" 
SelectPrefix "Arial" Codepage "Ansi"

Modified font entries:

Font "Arial" ReadFont "ARIAL.TTF" 
SelectPrefix "Arial" Codepage "Ansi" FontEmbed

Font "Arial_Underline" ReadFont "ARIAL.TTF" 
SelectPrefix "Arial" Codepage "Ansi" FontEmbed

 

To embed a readfont

1	Open the font substitution table or driver file that includes the entries for the fonts to embed.

2	Add/edit the entries for the fonts to embed.