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Create a PDF With embedded fonts using Preview
Authored by: bdavis921 on Dec 10, '06 08:57:59AM

This was an EXCELLENT tip. I did read one of the replies which suggested that one only had to use "Print to PDF". Well, Print to PDF does not work when you are starting out with a PDF file.
I send "electronic" documents to the USPTO which now scans them for embedding of all fonts. I am usually not the originator of these documents. The problem is you may have received documents that have security settings on them or use fonts that you might not have - all of which thwarts the ability to submit compliant documents. Even though one's system may substitute fonts, you cannot easily force such a substitution to be embedded. I previously unsuccessfully tried saving as Postscript and then distilling and any number of other options. In many cases I had to resort to saving as TIFF and re-importing into Adobe, but of course this was time consuming, resulted in the loss of all search capabilities, and required a file that takes up considerably more space.
Thank you for this excellent find!!



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