DLSoft Application Note 01021

Barcode fonts not embedding into Acrobat 5 pdf pages

Problem
When creating a pdf page from a document which contains a barcode
font, the font is not embedded, or on the embedding fonts dialog the
font is shown as non-embeddable.

Cause
With Acrobat 5 Adobe made use of the embeddable licence facility 
present in TrueType fonts. Previous versions of Acrobat had not used
this facility, and earlier versions of dLSoft fonts did not include an 
embedding licence.

Resolution
The Multi-user versions of all dLSoft fonts with version number 2.11
or greater now include and embedding licence, so the fonts will 
correctly embed into both Adobe Acrobat and web pages.

Applies to
dLSoft Barcode Fonts for Windows (all types)
Aztec barcode font kit
DataMatrix barcode font kit
PDF417 barcode font kit
Universal barcode font kit.

dLSoft
Jan 2002