Embedding Fonts in Acrobat

If you need a document to conform to the PDF/UA accessibility standard, then the fonts used in the document must be "embedded."  When fonts are embedded, the font files are included in the PDF, and therefore the visual appearance of the fonts will remain as the author intended to be displayed on different devices.   If you are running the PDF/UA standard check and receive a failure for fonts not being embedded, you will need to fix this issue in Acrobat. The screenshot below shows a failure of the PDF/UA 7.21 Fonts Checkpoint, for not having a specific font used in the document embedded.

Follow these steps to embed fonts in a PDF

1. Open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat
2. In the "Tools" open Print Production
   • If it’s not already in the list of tools on the right side of Acrobat, from the Tools screen, choose “Add” to add it to the right side. (You can also reorder the tools on the right side so you don’t have to search so hard for it every time.)
     
     
3. In Print Production, choose “Preflight”
4. In the Preflight panel, make sure your “Profile” (at the top, in the very center) is set to “Acrobat Pro DC 2015 Profiles
5. Navigate down to PDF fixups and expand it
6. Navigate to “Embed missing fonts” and select it
   
7. At the bottom right corner of the dialog box, choose “Analyze and fix”
   
8. Save.  Note: You might want to save this as a copy, with a different file name, just in case. 
9. Close the dialog box.
10. Close Acrobat and open the PDF with the fonts embedded to continue working.