How can one embed a font into a PDF with free linux command line tools?

Question

I have a set o f PDFs that display fine on my machine. However, they use non-standard fonts installed on my machine. As they are not embedded (as per pdffonts), they don't display on other machines. How can I embed this font using only linux command line tools.

BTW, under Windows, Adobe Acrobat could be used as explained here.

Solution 1

This should be solved by carefully reading these answers:

• How to repair a PDF file and embed missing fonts
• How do I embed fonts in an existing PDF?

Solution 2

Try this:

gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

Comments

[Kurt Pfeifle]

@ingomueller.net: This command will work, if your non-standard fonts are located in a standard path that Ghostscript knows about. Otherwise, look at the other links I provided in my own answer.

[Jim Paris]

Perfect, thank you. My document (created by pdflatex) was not accepted by the ScholarOne Manuscripts (S1M) document submission service until I ran it though ghostscript with this command.