Embedding Fonts QuarkXPress

Brief Description

Font embedding enables fonts used in the creation of a document to travel with that document, which ensures that a user views the document exactly as the author intended.

When you export a layout in PDF format, you can choose to reference or embed (download) the fonts used in that layout.

What your issue is

If you send that PDF off to someone else who doesn't have the font and they try to open it in anything other than Acrobat it says the font is missing.

How to fix this issue

You need to embed all the fonts. Go File>Export>Layout as PDF. In the new box click on the Options button, then fonts. Click the Select All box so there is a checkmark in it, click OK.

More details

You can choose to reference or embed fonts in an exported PDF.



'Referencing means that only the names of the fonts used are included in the PDF file. This helps to minimize the size of the exported PDF. However, in order for the document to render correctly, the fonts must be available on the computer where the PDF is opened or processed. If the fonts are not available, you run the risk of font substitution (where an incorrect font is substituted for a missing font).

'Embedding means that the fonts themselves are included in the PDF file. This increases the size of the PDF file, but ensures that the text will display or output correctly.

When you choose to embed fonts in an exported layout by checking Download All Fonts, QuarkXPress always subsets the fonts, meaning that only the characters actually used in the layout are included in the PDF file. This minimizes file size while helping to ensure text fidelity.

NOTE: If you export a PDF without embedding the fonts (File> Export> Layout as PDF> Options button> Fonts), then import that PDF and run Collect for Output (File menu) with Fonts checked, the fonts that are not embedded in the PDF are not collected. While not really a “bug” (this is a logical result of fonts not being embedded into a PDF you’ve imported into QuarkXPress), it could trip up an unsuspecting user. Be sure to check that any PDFs you import into a QuarkXPress document have their fonts embedded! One way to determine that is to open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat or Reader and choose File> Properties... and look under the Fonts tab.

References:

Quark Tutorials

Embedding fonts

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