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Embedded Fonts not installing

Hello,

I have a TrueType font that has been embedded into a .docx and it will display properly on a system that is missing that font but the font itself does not install on the system it was opened on. The issue with that is that when the document is saved locally the font is lost. It is my understanding that if a font has a Font embeddability of Installable that it should install once opened locally but this does not appear to be the case. Can anyone spread some light on this and let me know how to accomplish this? I have tried in office 2013 and 2010.

Thanks!

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Despite numerous Microsoft Knowledge Base articles and other pages to the contrary, Installable embedding is no longer honored. A newsgroup post from 2004 quotes "Simon Daniels of Microsoft" as saying:

'Installable embedding' fonts are no longer 'installed' - they are treated like fonts that are set to 'editable embedding'. Two reasons, firstly because users don't like random fonts getting added to their fonts folder. Secondly, for security reasons. Not installing embedded fonts reduces the surface area for attacks.

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Last updated August 20, 2022 Views 237 Applies to: