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How print lossless into new pdf?

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Hi there,
I have to embed fonts for printing a book. Unfortunately the source-file is deleted. I only have a pdf-file without embedded fonts.
How can I embed them without any loss?
I tried out PDF-XChange Lite V6 to print it to file. But the result seems to be rather unsharp, less clear than the original.
Is there a way to get it lossless?

thank you in advance for your answer!

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Re: How print lossless into new pdf?

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Hi Rainer,

Thanks for the post - Please make sure that the following is set to Auto and that Print as Image is unchecked:
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Re: How print lossless into new pdf?

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Sorry to interfere, but an other way around could be to deliver the required fonts as separate files (*.TTF / *.OTF) to the printing company or office. In that case, you can best use the PDF without embedded fonts for a 100% perfect result.

Take care, passing along fonts is not always allowed, because of licensing reasons.

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Thanks Willy :)
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Re: How print lossless into new pdf?

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Thank you Will!
I hope that had helped. On my screen it seems to have a better result. Although the file-size is decreased to about a half of the original.
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Re: How print lossless into new pdf?

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To verify if fonts are "embedded" (= included), you should open the resulting PDF in PDF-XChange Editor and look via File > Document Properties > Fonts. The different fonts, used in your document, should be listed and have "(Embedded)" besides their names.

The only way myself I did succeed to embed the needed fonts, was to save the PDF via File > Save As... into the "PDF/A Document (*.pdf)" format, via the "Save As Type" option, and via the "Option" button, uncheck "Embed Font Subset".

Can you please try this, and give us some feedback ?


N.B.: More information about the PDF Archiving format is available here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A
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Thanks for the advise Willy!

Dan - Willy's correct in that fonts should be embedded to produce the best quality prints. Regarding your query on file size, I suspect that this decreased because the document was previously being printed using cruves rather than actual text. Curves are normally large than text and also don't compress as well.

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Re: How print lossless into new pdf?

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Make sure that your original PDF file does not use Type1 fonts, though, because these are not supported by X-Change printers yet.
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Hi Timur,

As far as I'm aware, we do support Type1 fonts, we just need to improve the way that we handle them.

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