- [Instructor] When you look at this page,
there's nothing to make you suspicious,
except maybe the ugly type setting,
but I'm going to tell you that there's
a little problem lurking under the hood.
It's rare, but it could blindside you
if you don't know what's going on.
I'll go up to Type and choose Find/Replace Font.
And I'm using three fonts, Bauhaus,
Cleargothic, and Minion Pro.
When I click more info and then choose Bauhaus,
here's the problem, sort of hiding in plain sight.
Restrictions cannot embed in PDF or EPS.
And think how frequently you need
to submit a PDF to the printer.
Well what happens if you go ahead and create a PDF anyway?
What's going to happen in that outgoing PDF?
Let's take a look.
Here in Acrobat, you can tell
that the text looks a little bit different.
It's serviceable, the line breaks have been maintained,
it's readable, but what has happened
to the fonts that it couldn't embed?
If we go up to File and choose Properties,
and you can find out a lot about a PDF by doing this,
let's check fonts and under Bauhaus,
notice that it does not say embedded.
It does for the other font that's used in here,
Minion Pro, Embedded Subset, that's what you want to see.
But for both Bauhaus and Cleargothic
it has actually substituted, sort of faked the font,
by using something called Adobe Sans MM,
which stands for Multiple Master.
So it says, well, the actual font was type one, postscript,
but I had to fake it with this.
If you were okay with the way this looked,
I suppose you could send this PDF,
but if you really wanted the way it looked
in the original InDesign file, you have a problem.
If you really wanted to maintain that,
about all you could do is outline all the text
that just makes me cringe thinking about it.
But your better recourse is to find another font
that looks close to what you had,
but does allow itself to be embedded.
Again, I said, this is a rare problem.
You won't come across this very often.
It can happen with really old fonts
that somebody has lying around the house
that they got when they bought some old Office applications.
But just keep an eye out
and always double check your fonts and make sure
that they'll allow themselves to be embedded in a PDF.