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My usecase is to create pdfs through the "print to pdf" menu. I kinda assumed the fonts were embeded.

I don't seem to have any options when creating pdfs to embed or not embed fonts. Is this some feature of PDF creation software?

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Yes. From the top of my head the usual print to PDF behaviour is to embed the relevant subsets of any font other than the fourteen core ones given in the PDF standard.

The default is to mostly embed, except for a number of standard fonts.

You can list the embedded fonts using standard tools. The pdffonts binary is pretty universal, as part of the Poppler set of tools.

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