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Fonts in PDF files: How do I ensure that a font will render properly across platforms/readers?

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Mar 15, 202681454 views
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I created a document in MS Word (2007) and then published to PDF with the intention of creating a document that looks the same regardless of platform or pdf reader choice. It looks fine on a couple of windows machines, but when I open it in ubuntu (using acroread) the original font, arial, gets rep…

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Since you do not require MS Word -- how about using OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice? Both these have a menu item 'File -> Export as PDF...'. Make sure you activate the checkbox PDF/A-1a -- this will guarantee compliance with the PDF/A-1a standard whic…

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