Join Russell Viers for an in-depth discussion in this video Fixing missing fonts, part of 11 Things Every Newspaper Should Know About PDFs.
One of my favorite things to do is to fix missing fonts. …I don't know why I like this because it can actually be quite traumatic. …Especially if you don't have something that even comes close but this …demonstration's going to be a lot of fun. I'm in Acrobat 9 and I'm going to highlight …this right there. This is going to be the same in Acrobat 10. …Nothing changes here. Now this 5000.00 dollars cash. …Let's go look. File properties > Fonts > Antique Olive, …I'm guessing, is what that is. It looks like it.…
It was embedded as a subset. Yeah! …Well, because it's a subset, it's going to be harder for me to edit if I want to …change certain numbers. For example they called me and they said, …hey Russel. We, passed around the hat, and we decided …that we can now give away $5,237. So, I'm going to go to my touchup text tool …and highlight that, and type two I didn't even get past two. …All or part of the selection has no available system font.…
You can't add or delete text using the currently selected font. …
Author
Russell Viers
Released
4/25/2011- Checking out the PDF
- Digging deeper with the Output Preview panel
- Simple fixes with the TouchUp tools
- Converting colors
- Managing transparency
- Working with fonts
- Preflighting PDFs
- Repairing PDFs with Photoshop and Illustrator
- Exporting vs. printing and distilling
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 49s
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1. Checking Out the PDF
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2. Digging Deeper with Output Preview
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Overprint Preview6m 27s
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Separations Preview6m 7s
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The Ink Manager10m 59s
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Finding CMYK blacks6m 16s
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3. Simple Fixes with the TouchUp Tools
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The TouchUp Text tool7m 31s
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The TouchUp Object tool13m 36s
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Cropping3m 2s
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4. Converting Colors
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Working with Color7m 22s
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5. Managing Transparency
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Finding transparency3m 29s
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What is flattening?4m 33s
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6. What's Going on with Fonts?
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Embedding fonts11m 43s
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Fixing missing fonts4m 41s
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7. Preflighting PDFs
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What is preflighting?4m 56s
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Using default profiles5m 3s
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Checks vs. fixups8m 26s
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Creating a custom profile10m 37s
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The power of droplets6m 5s
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8. When to Use Photoshop as a PDF Repair Tool
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The danger of raster9m 57s
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Fixing CMYK blacks4m 27s
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9. Using Illustrator as a PDF Repair Tool
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10. Exporting vs. Printing and Distilling
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Exporting from InDesign13m 32s
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Printing PostScript7m 2s
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Acrobat Distiller13m 52s
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11. Have You Metadata?
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Metadata in PDFs7m 13s
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