How do I embed fonts in a PDF?

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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. It is possible to embed all of the characters in a font or only the characters used. Lulu's Distribution service requires fonts to be fully embedded. If you do not have printing rights for a font, you will not be able to embed it properly and it will not print correctly.

Embedding fonts in Adobe products:

The easiest way to ensure your PDF prints the way you want with the fonts you want is to use Lulu's Adobe Acrobat Job Options (right click or control click here to download).

The other option is to adjust the settings yourself by gonig into the PDF settings.

  1. Under the fonts tab select Embed all fonts and Subset embedded fonts when percent of characters used is less than: Set the percentage to 1%.
  2. Select the folder with the fonts you want to embed from the drop down box under Embedding
  3. Check the Never Embed Font box and remove any fonts in the box.

Embedding fonts in OpenOffice:

OpenOffice automatically embeds all fonts used.

Last updated: 2009-07-09 17:01:13

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