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Fonts do not show up when I print to PDF

Adobe Acrobat & PDF Files

Creating your document via a word processing application base 14 fonts must be used. Base 14 fonts, which are preinstalled on most computers, includes Courier (Regular, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic), Arial MT (Regular, Bold, Oblique, and Bold Oblique), Times New Roman PS MT (Roman, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic), Symbol, and Zapf Dingbats.

If not using a base 14 fonts as mentioned above, it is strongly suggested to embed your font. BUT, if the document uses anything other than Base 14 font and it is a BNC notice (like the chapter 13 plan) it will not notice properly.

The below will instruct you how to embed fonts, which is done only once for your Adobe Acrobat application.

Embed Fonts in Adobe Acrobat
Click on the hyperlinks below for more information on the specific version instruction.

V.5 PDF Writer

If you use the PDFwriter to create PDF files:
From your petition software (or most any windows program):

Clickon File, Print and select the PDFwriter as the printer.
Clickon the Properties button, and click on the ‘Font Embedding’ tab and click the box for ‘Embed all fonts’.
ClickOK.

V.5 PDF Distiller

If you use Adobe Distiller to create PDF files:
From your petition software (or most any windows program):

Clickon File, Print and select the Distiller as the printer.
Clickon the Properties button, and click on the ‘Adobe PDf settings’ tab and click the box for ‘Do not send fonts to Distiller’ so that the check mark goes away.
ClickOK.

Version 6

Clickon the Windows Start button (on the lower left-hand corner of your computer).
Clickon Programs.
Clickon Acrobat Distiller 6.0.
Clickon Settings.
Clickon Edit Adobe PDF Settings.
Clickon the Fonts tab.
Checkthe Embed All Fonts box (it may already be checked).
ClickSave As and accept the default name; click OK and close Acrobat Distiller by clicking the "X" in the upper right corner of the program.

Quick Note:

You should only have to do this once and this setting will become part of your PDFwriter defaults.

To verify that the fonts are embedded, repeat the process and ensure the Embed all fonts box is still checked.

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