How to Fully Embed Fonts Using Toolkit


In Toolkit SubsetFonts is set to true by default. To fully embed a font, set SubsetFonts to False.
After SubsetFonts is set to false, fonts are embedded in the output PDFs.


To check for embedded font in the output PDF



  1. Open the PDF and on your keyboard press Ctrl+d to open the PDF Properties dialog box.

  2. Select the Fonts tab.

  3. Look for your font in the list, it should show either (Embedded) or (Subset).


VBS Example for Setting SubsetFonts = False


' Variables ' Template and Output files
varOutputFile = "output.pdf"


' Instantiate Object
Set TK = CreateObject("APToolkit.Object")


' OpenOutputFile
varReturn = TK.OpenOutputFile(varOutputFile)


If varReturn <> 0 Then


Error("OpenOutputFile")


End If


' False embeds font, True Subsets Font
TK.SubsetFonts = False


' Set the font for the text on page 1
TK.SetFont "C:\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf", 20, 0


TK.PrintText 10, 750, "Toolkit Version: " & TK.ToolkitVersion TK.NewPage


' CloseOutputFile
TK.CloseOutputFile


' Clear Object 
Set TK = Nothing


' Done 
Msgbox "Success!"


' Error Handling 
Sub Error(Method)


Msgbox "'" & Method & "' failed with a '" & varReturn & _


"'" & VBCRLF & "TK Return Codes:" & VBCRLF & _


"http://www.activepdf.com/support/kb/?id=10670&tk=ts"


Set TK = Nothing


Wscript.Quit


End Sub