# Adobe Pagemaker to PDF - why are my fonts not embedding?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 4, 2007, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adobe-pagemaker-to-pdf-why-are-my-fonts-not-embedding/417997 "2007-09-04T14:14:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adobe-pagemaker-to-pdf-why-are-my-fonts-not-embedding/417997/1 "2007-09-04T14:14:44Z")

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I am very frustrated - I send it through distiller and the “all fonts embedded” box is checked and yet - all fonts aren’t embedding.

HELP me please!

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adobe-pagemaker-to-pdf-why-are-my-fonts-not-embedding/417997/2 "2007-09-04T14:22:55Z")

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I believe that Adobe apps pay attention to certain license bits in the fots that may restrict embedding. Huge pain, yes I know.

When I run into this in Illustrator, I make a copy and convert its fonts to outlines. This doesn’t really help with large amounts of text, thouigh.