Yet another font embedding question- phantom fonts

[Microbru]

So earlier, I was having the common "Arial is not embedding correctly etc." issue and had run through all the suggestions here and elsewhere.  Finally, I decided it wasn't worth it and hit "select all" and replaced all the offending fonts with one acceptable font.

Fine.

So I go to make my pdf.  Looks great.  But when I go to properties, Adobe Reader insists that "Arial, Arial Black, Garamond, & Times New Roman" were not fully embedded.  I removed them all, didn't I?  And I never even used Garamond once!  My frustration level has reached epic preportions.

Specs:  Written using Lulu formatting in Word 2002

attempted to create pdf files using both Word 2007 and Adobe 10 with the same result.

Is there some way to find where Abode thinks those fonts are hiding or another way to rid myself of the offending fonts?

Thank you,

Scott McLoud

[Microbru]

Update:  I did check my original word doc, search for fonts and it did not find any of the objectionable fonts in my document.

[sophierj]

I get confused with all this embedding... I used to do it all the time, and forgot to do it once, and that time used some definite non-standard fonts that should have needed embedding, and the print ready file, and subsequent book, came out fine... Good luck with yours... !!

[unicorn123]

Hello

Yes there is a way! It just so happened that I was having the same problem.

So here is what you must do:

Download a Free Trial of Acrobat X - Pro.

Then follow these instructions: Go to the toobar:

 - Edit

- Preferences

- Convert to PDF

- select MS Word

- Click onto Edit Settings

- Click onto Edit

- Highlight FONTS

Tick the boxes - embed all fonts and Subset embedded...

Make sure all boxes on the right are clear.

Make sure you save the settings.

Then you come out of that and go to Create PDF from the main toolbar and browse your Word File and then follow the instructions.

I hope this helps!

Malika

[kevinlomas]

Select All does not include Headers, Footers, and a few other things too.

What puzzles me is your list of fonts. This is Lulu's 'OK' list >

If you are planning to upload your own PDF, you may use any fonts you like, but you must embed the fonts in the PDF before uploading to Lulu. If you are planning to have Lulu convert your document to a PDF, be sure to choose fonts from the following list. If you use a font that is not on this list, the Lulu converter will substitute one of these fonts in its place. This may adversely affect your formatting.
•Arial
•Book Antiqua
•Bookman Old Style
•Century
•Courier
•Garamond
•Palatino
•Tahoma
•Times New Roman
•Verdana
•Symbols

Follow these general guidelines when choosing your fonts:
•Serif fonts are best for printed documents. Use serif fonts like Garamond, Times New Roman and Palatino for blocks of body text.
•Sans serif fonts are best for online documents and for display text. Use sans serif fonts like Arial and Verdana if you intend your book to be viewed online.
•Use bold sans serif fonts for title text or headings.

Seems only Ariel Black should need embedding for Lulu's Convertor.

Anyway, try here >> http://connect.lulu.com/t5/Interior-Formatting/How-do-I-embed-fonts-in-a-PDF/ta-p/33148

It's not a problem I have because I use a .docx and only Garamond. Most of those fonts look almost the same anyway!

[Peter May]

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So I go to make my pdf.  Looks great.  But when I go to properties, Adobe Reader insists that "Arial, Arial Black, Garamond, & Times New Roman" were not fully embedded.   

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I had a similar problem long ago and tracked it down to a footnote. Way I did it was to cut my doc in half, PDF that, check if I got the message, and keep halving the doc to I found the rogue un-embeddable element.

Remember also that Word refers to fonts even on blank spaces. Move your cursor ontop a blank area of your doc and you'll see that a font appears in the font box, so the problem might be caused by an area where there is no text. It may be from where you were doing title pages and chenged the font then went back again leaving a dot or space in an old font.

All the same - I'd have thought the PDF conversion would have embedded them

[kevinlomas]

On some settings of Word it will even embed printer command settings and all kinds of 'rubbish' in to the file.

[Ken Anderson]

Well tested fault finding technique Peter. Recommended in my EPUB tutorial.