Printing the graphic design as intended is important for every printing job. One of the key points is ensuring the right fonts are displayed and printed as designed. When the printing factory receives the graphic design, they will always open it to check whether texts in the file are outlined. If fonts are not outlined, they will ask you to outline the fonts or provide the font used. Some may be confused about this, this article will answer your question.
A professional designer always knows the importance of fonts in graphic design. A perfect font not only makes the design more readable, but also makes the design appealing and stunning. Fonts are actually code, backed by specific font files stored on your computer or in an online repository, they are editable. If the artwork is opened on a computer that doesn't install the fonts or has no access to the fonts you’ve used, the artwork will encounter errors, and the named fonts will be replaced by other different fonts, which means the artwork will be edited, it's not the original artwork and prevents the printer from preparing your file for the press. This wastes the hard work the designer puts into choosing the perfect font, no designer wants this to happen.
Converting fonts to outlines changes your text to vectorized shapes and removes all font information from the file. This means the text is no longer editable, and it also means to avoid font errors. This ensures your font will print as you designed it regardless of whether or not your printer has the same font installed.
In Illustrator, it's quite easy to outline fonts after you finish your graphic design.
Outlining texts of artwork makes it uneditable any more, if you don't keep the original graphic design, when you need to edit the artwork, you need to re-work the graphic design, this will truly brings extra work. So if you choose to outline your fonts, be sure to make a copy of your file to do so rather than outlining the fonts in your original, this is wise just in case you or the printer need to make any edits to the document down the road.
Why Embed Fonts?
Outlining fonts can ensure fonts are exactly displayed as designed, but for long documents like magazines and booklets, embedding fonts is no doubt a better choice since embedding preserves font styles and all text formatting but still be editable. That means others can still see the documents exactly as you designed them even though they don't have your certain fonts installed.
If you’re exporting as a high-resolution PDF, any fonts included in the document are typically embedded in the PDF by default.
Navigate to the File menu, select Save As, and choose Adobe PDF as the format.
Packaging your file neatly organizes your design file and any linked files, like fonts or images, into a zip file so that anyone else you send the file to can access these important resources.
Navigate to the File menu > Package
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