More and more applications, including Illustrator and Acrobat, allow not only the embedding
of fonts, but also the subsetting of those fonts. If you strip out a font that\u2019s been subsetted,
what you end up with is a font set with only the characters that were used in the original docu-
ment.

To strip a font from a PDF file, open the file in the full version of Acrobat (not Reader) and
export (or Save As... in Acrobat 5) an EPS file. Then open the EPS file (or PostScript print file)
in a text editor and search for the font you want to strip out by name. Look for a line that
reads: \u201c%%BeginResource: font fontname\u201d where fontname is the name of the font you want
to strip. If the name of the font is preceeded by six random alpha characters and a plus sign,
that is an indication that the font is subsetted, but you should check font info in Acrobat before
you get this far (File>Document Info>Fonts). If it reads Embedded Subset under Used Font,
the font is not complete.

Select all the text immediately following the colon of BeginResource all the way to the end of
the font resource information. The end is marked with an %%EndSetup. Cut the text and paste
it into a new text document.