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Guidelines for authors using Asian fonts

Early versions of Adobe Acrobat do not allow Asian fonts to be embedded, only Acrobat version 4 and 5 can embed these fonts. There are some problems with embedding Asian fonts if you are using Mac OS and you may not be able to do this easily. If this is the case, we regret that we will be unable to accept your file.

Please embed all fonts even if you do not think you have used any special fonts. They are often left in the original Word document or may occur in graphics and may not even be visible.

Use Acrobat version 4 and Acrobat Distiller (PDF Writer will not embed asian fonts)

The following is some technical  information about embedding Asian fonts provided by the Adobe Acrobat 4 Guide. Please see the section on Setting Acrobat Distiller Options for further details.

PC

To embed Asian TrueType fonts in a PDF file:

1. Choose Settings > Printers from the Windows Start menu. Then right-click on the Acrobat Distiller printer, and choose Properties. See your Windows documentation for details on the Properties dialog box.
2. In the Fonts panel, select the Send TrueType Fonts to Printer option, and click Edit the Table.
3. Set the download option to Type 42 for each TrueType font used in the document.
4. Click OK in the Font Substitution Table dialog box and in the Properties dialog box.

Mac OS

Working with TrueType fonts

In Mac OS, the PostScript printer driver cannot embed TrueType fonts in the PostScript file that Distiller processes. As a result, TrueType fonts cannot be embedded. If your document has Asian TrueType fonts, you can run the MakeCID (character ID) utility to convert the fonts to a form Distiller can process to create references to Asian fonts in the PDF file. See Using MakeCID to create width-only fonts for details on this utility.

Working with Asian ATM Type 1 fonts

If your document has Asian ATM Type 1 PostScript fonts, and if you have these fonts installed on your Mac OS, Distiller can directly access the fonts to display and print Asian text. The fonts must be in the System Folder/Fonts folder for Distiller to access them. In addition, the fonts must be in the CID-keyed (character ID-keyed) format; the earlier OCF (original composite format) is not supported. You can use the Distiller job options to specify whether to embed the fonts in the resulting PDF file or to put references to the fonts in the file.

If you have Type 1 fonts in OCF, you can run MakeCID to create CID fonts with the same properties as the OCF fonts. The fonts will be referenced in the PDF file; they cannot be embedded in the file. See Using MakeCID to create width-only fonts for details on this utility.

To check if your fonts are embedded

Go to File > Properties > Fonts > List all Fonts