
The easiest way to ensure your PDF prints the way you want with the fonts you want is to use Lulu's Adobe Job Options (attached below) if you are using Adobe products. If you see this error when creating your book, then you will need to embed your fonts and re-upload the PDF.

Beware, if they do embed, they will not print as they appear on your screen.

For commercial purposes, you have to pay a much larger commercial license fee.Ĥ) Okay to distribute for free, but only as an embedded, subset font. For such a font, the printer has to purchase their own copy of the fonts you used to legally reproduce the printed piece.ģ) Same as number 2, but you cannot use it in a commercially printed project, or on the web. The maker of a font wants to get paid by each person who uses it for the same reason each person buys their own legal copy of Word, or any other commercial software title.įonts licenses are usually broken down as:Ģ) Can be used only by the person who purchased it.
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They typically carry licenses that don't allow you to freely send them off to other users who don't already own the font. I could easily list a dozen apps I've used in prepress and at home that don't embed fonts. There's nothing uncommon about apps not embedding fonts.
