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> A PDF can include the fonts. But it often doesn't, and relies on system fonts.

found this out, after 20-something years of consistent pdf renderings, in a job interview because my docs allegedly looked odd :/

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The Arabic glossary of legal terms distributed by the State of California is unreadable unless you open the file in Adobe Reader, search for the name of the font used, download and install the font on your system, close the file and reopen it. I suppose there are many instances of this happening.

Yeah, MS Office PDF generation (at least some time ago) did not generate PDFs with embedded fonts, and I’d often come across weird-looking documents where the system is using a font with the wrong characteristics. Print-to-PDF usually avoids this.

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