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Click the Fonts tab at the top of the Document Properties dialog box to view information about
font embedding in the PDF. Check to make sure that all fonts are fully embedded or subset; this
information is available in parentheses after the font name. If embedding has no entry, the font is
not embedded, which may lead to problems at output time. If you don't own the necessary font,
contact the customer and request that they recreate the PDF with the font properly embedded.
If the font forbids embedding, ask that the customer consult the end-user licensing agreement
(EULA) for the font to determine if they can legally supply the font separately for you to down-
load to the RIP for correct imaging.
To view information about the security settings in the PDF, click the Security tab at the top of
the Document Properties dialog box. If the PDF has any restrictions—even if they don't include
restrictions to printing—to avoid problems, get a new PDF without any security restrictions
whatsoever from the customer. This is necessary even if no password is required to open the
document and the document has no restrictions. If a Permissions password has been applied,
your imposition software may reject the file, and your RIP may be unable to process it. PDFs for
print should be completely free of any security settings.
Overprint Preview in Acrobat 9 Pro
Overprint Preview mode displays overprinted objects on screen as they would appear in print,
not as an opaque stack of graphics. It also provides a more accurate preview of how spot colors
will look.
In previous versions, users had to manually invoke Overprint Preview, but Acrobat 9 Pro takes
a different approach. There is no longer a menu item to control overprint display; instead,
Preferences and the Output Preview panel control when Overprint Preview is activated.
Document Properties/Fonts
All fonts embedded in the PDF are
listed, along with their embedding
status . Here, the font Balloon is not
embedded . Unless you have access
to Balloon, font substitution will
occur at print time, and thus output
won't be faithful to the original file .
Document Properties/Security
Any security limitations appear
in the Security pane . Even if the
security setting allows printing,
some processes (such as imposition
software) will reject the file unless
it is free of all security restrictions
(including permission passwords) .
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