Questions tagged [embedded-fonts]
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View list of embedded fonts in PDF file with Preview
In Acrobat Reader I can go to File > Properties to see all the metadata for the open PDF file: the program that created the document, author information, embedded fonts, etc.
OS X's Preview can also display metadata, albeit a more limited subset…
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How to combine separate font files for different languages?
Is there any way to combine font files together? Say I have some eastern font files (Chinese, Korean, Japanese) etc and I'd like to combine them with a western (English) font, then export the combined file as a single .ttf?
I've heard that Adobe…
Qing Hai
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Where is the Arial Narrow font on Windows?
If I open up MS Word, I can see Arial Narrow in the font list (so I know it is on my machine somwhere).
But when I go to c:\Windows\Fonts or to c:\Windows\winsxs I can not seem to find any file that is Arial Narrow.
Any one know where this file…
Vaccano
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Why does my Adobe Reader render PDFs so poorly?
I'm using Adobe Reader 9.4.3 on Windows 7. Everything is pretty much as is out of the box. I have not done anything special with fonts or smoothing. In Linux and even Windows/Chrome things look like this:
In Adobe/Windows they look like this:
deltanovember
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Saving Visio .vsdx drawing into a format that preserves its fonts, pixels, etc
I have a drawing saved as .vsdx file (made in visio 2013). How do I convert it to the .eps format (or any vectorized format preserving its fonts, pixels etc.) to be used later as LaTeX figure?
Why not use "Export" instead in Visio 2013?
The 2013…
Hans
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How to view all characters of a font and their letter mapping
So I got this icon font as .eot, .svg, .ttf and .woff for use in a web page.
So for example in my web page i would write t and assign the icon font. In the icon font, the letter t is the icon I want to display here.
But there is no…
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Firefox blocking certain embedded fonts (e.g. Google fonts)
Anytime I pull up a page in Firefox that uses fonts served by the site or by Google's CDN (e.g. themes.googleusercontent.com), the @font-face fonts are not downloaded/rendered by my browser. (I can, however, see webfonts served by a data: URI.)
For…
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Replacing Type1 fonts in PDF with TrueType1 fonts
I have an old PDF with Type1 fonts. I can't copy paste text from this PDF - there are no copyright issues, this is simply some old document - not even sure how it was created.
How do I replace these with truetype fonts?
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Prevent Firefox from using specified system fonts
My OS is Windows 7. I have two requirements that seem conflicting:
I need to have some specific fonts installed in Windows so I can use them in desktop appplications (Illustrator, Photoshop...)
In Firefox, I want to be able to use a website that…
Glauber Rocha
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MS Word not embedding Math font
I have created a document with two bespoke fonts (company fonts). I have set Word to embed fonts so maintain the look of the document when it is distributed outside of the company, and the main body font embeds fine. However, the Math font used for…
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How I can dynamically subset a ttf font?
Let's say I have a long text:
Latebrae agente praefuit imperator nec praefuit ducens insidiarum sunt insidiarum emensis fatorum ubi milites rebus Noricorum viam sorte rebus suis emensis tristissima itaque et vita suis Noricorum erat ulla repente…
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How to lock the fonts of a PowerPoint file?
Is it possible to lock the fonts of a PowerPoint file?
I mean if there is any way to set a specific font to be the only one to be used in the document, which is a PowerPoint template, so anyone who uses it it'll have only one font to choose.…
elunicotomas
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How to preserve the fonts in PowerPoint?
I used some fonts in PowerPoint 2013 and when I opened that in PowerPoint 2007 in a different PC, all the fonts are changed.
Is there a way to embed/preserve the fonts in PowerPoint so that it opens the same way no matter whether the concerned font…
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Document shows text in "Khmer UI", but that font is not in available list
I received a Document (*.doc) and am able to open it in OpenOffice (3.4.1), where I see that the font shown in the font selection dropdown is "Khmer UI".
When I click the dropdown, the font name changes to something else immediately.
If I select…
Prem
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Resetting Unicode mappings in PDF text
PDFs often contain fonts without explicit mappings to Unicode, preventing us from extracting correct text from them -- curse you, Adobe!
I need to process PDFs in a batch fashion on a Linux system. I have several examples here with hyphenated lines,…
Aaron Brick
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