#9 ability to embed fonts in PDF documents

[Pablo Rodriguez]

Wouldn't it be possible that Multivalent would be able
to embed fonts (with and without subsetting them) into
PDF files that doesn't have one or more fonts embedded?

And also being able to change the embedding of a font
from partial to full would be extremely helpful.

Both would be really useful features.

[Tom Phelps]

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Font embedding is on the priority list.

Why would one want to replace a subsetted font with the full one, which would
be larger.

[Pablo Rodriguez]

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It would be a workaround for joining documents with the same
subsetted font.

So repeated repeated full fonts could be erased and the
resulting one could be subsetted.

So the resulting file would be smaller.

[Tom Phelps]

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I see your point, but I'm skeptical that expanded subsetted fonts to full would
be effective in practice. Fonts are embedded when they are not common, so
it would be unlikely that the full font would be available locally. Or if the full
fonts are available, simply unembed fonts (tool.pdf.Compress), merge, then
re-embed.

I have seen cases of different font subsets in PDFs one would like to merge in
big books and magazines that are split by the publisher and distributed by
article or chapter. Where are you seeing lots of cases you want to handle in
this way?

[Pablo Rodriguez]

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Being able to embed fonts in documents with no fonts at all
is useful (and not only for the purposes described on this
case.)

There a not so many files that require I would handle this
way, but there are some. (Only being able to embed the font
will do the work.)