{"id":151001,"date":"2015-07-06T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/?p=151001"},"modified":"2024-08-30T14:27:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T21:27:19","slug":"document-font-embedding-demystified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2015\/07\/06\/document-font-embedding-demystified\/","title":{"rendered":"Document font embedding demystified"},"content":{"rendered":"

For many years, Office on Windows has offered users the ability to embed fonts within electronic documents such as Word documents or PDF files. However, we often get questions about the font embedding feature and today are providing you with details on what font embedding is and how you can use in your electronic documents.<\/p>\n

Put simply, font embedding is taking a digital font file and including it within another digital file. Usually when people refer to font embedding they are talking about document font embedding. Document font embedding ensures that the recipient of a document can view it properly even if they don\u2019t have the fonts you used to create it installed on their machine.<\/p>\n

How to take advantage font embedding<\/h3>\n

Font embedding settings are usually included as an advanced option under the document \u201cSave\u201d or \u201cExport\u201d menus of Word, PowerPoint and Publisher and can be enabled by selecting the Embed fonts in the file<\/strong> checkbox.<\/p>\n

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Fonts types that can be embedded within documents<\/h3>\n

All TrueType and OpenType fonts have \u201cembedding permissions\u201d encoded within them, these are typically set by the font\u2019s supplier, and are defined as part of the OpenType font file specification<\/a>. There are a number of settings, but the main ones of interest are as follows:<\/p>\n