Cannot extract the embedded font (XXXXXX). Some characters may not display or print correctly.

[GazzaDownUnder]

I have been using the font Concorde for years with InDesign (up to and including version CS6) without any problems. I started to recreated my project in Affinity Designer and copied blocks of text from InDesign into Affinity Designer, and create style sheets etc. On screen the font looks fine and behaves normally. When I go to print to my Fuji-Xerox postscript printer, the font (Concorde) defaults to the  sans serif font (MM sans???). If I open it in Preview the font looks okay on screen, but prints wrong. If I try to open it with Acrobat Pro I get a pop-up warning screen which reads .... Cannot extract the embedded font 'DFOCPU+Concorde-Roman'. Some characters may not display or print correctly... and the on-screen display is wrong.

I wish to be able to Print to my Xerox printer and create Press-Ready PDFs without the font defaulting to the sans serif default font. What is the solution?

[Dan C]

Hi GazzaDownUnder,

Welcome to the forums

As covered in the below topic, this is likely due to the license setting of the font file itself -

You can convert your text to curves before printing to ensure the font is retained - I hope this helps!

[GazzaDownUnder]

How can I test a font on a Mac to see if it can be embedded or not? FontBook.app doesn't seem to show it. Below is what shows in Font Book...

 

PostScript name Concorde-Roman

Full name 12 Concorde** Roman   05319

Family Concorde

Style 12 Concorde** Roman   05319

Kind PostScript Type1

Language Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Catalan, Chiga, Cornish, Danish, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, German, Gusii, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kabuverdianu, Kalenjin, Kinyarwanda, Low German, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Malay, Manx, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Portuguese, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Shambala, Shona, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Vunjo, Zulu

Script Latin

Version 001.000

Location /Users/gazza/Library/Fonts/Concorde

Unique name 12 Concorde** Roman   05319

Copyright The di

Trademark Copyright (c) 1989 Adobe Systems Incorporated.  All Rights Reserved.Concorde is a registered trademark of Berthold.

Enabled Yes

Duplicate No

Copy protected No

Glyph count 229

[Dan C]

You can use FontDrop! (linked below) to upload the font file. Select the Data tab and the look for the fsType -

https://fontdrop.info/

The fsType number relates to the following license flags - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/os2#fstype

[GazzaDownUnder]

Thanks for your quick response Dan. Sadly FontDrop.info doesn't to PostScript fonts (only OTF etc). 

I think I need to change font ... or export to PDF to generate pages when printing (either laser printer or press-ready files).  

Will need to experiment with a suitable workflow. :-)

 

[GazzaDownUnder]

Acrobat shows Concorde-Roman doesn't have the words (Embedded Subset) after its name. Whereas the other two do.

[J Branecka]

I came across the same issue "Cannot extract the embedded font 'XXXXXX-mycustomfont'. Some characters may not display or print correctly..."  in Affinity Designer and Publisher. I got it sorted eventually. Go to File -> Export -> PDF. Choose your preset. Click on More... In the Export Panel scroll to Embed fonts and untick Subset fonts.

[GazzaDownUnder]

Thanks @J Branecka  for that info re unticking the Subset Fonts option. From what I see from my limited testing, that has solved the problem.