Reply To: Font Cleanup and Protected Fonts

There are very few fonts that are protected in such a way that Package won’t grab them. It’s possible, but rare. More common is that you’re using Adobe Fonts. Package doesn’t grab those because Adobe figures that if you have a Creative Cloud subscription and your printer has one, then you don’t need to send them… the printer will just sync the fonts on their end.

On the other hand, I virtually never send packaged files to the printer anymore because it’s FAR easier/better/more reliable to just send them a PDF file.

There, too, it’s possible that a font can be protected in such a way that it can’t be embedded in a PDF, but that’s pretty rare.

If you need to, you could conceivably export to PDF and convert the fonts to outlines on the fly:

Converting Text to Outlines the Right Way, Updated

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How to Tell Which Files Use Type 1 PostScript Fonts

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