Here's something in Revu that needs to be improved upon.
When assembling a combined document from several PDFs originally created with "Microsoft Print to PDF", duplicate embedded/subset fonts are saved in the master document.
Simple workflow to demonstrate:
- Open a document of text, formatted with a few different fonts, in Microsoft Word.
- Print the document (the 1st time) with "Microsoft Print to PDF"
- Re-print the document a 2nd time using "Microsoft Print to PDF" with a different file name.
- Open the 1st PDF file in Bluebeam Revu. Go to Document > Document Properties > Fonts.
- Notice that there are embedded fonts but no duplicates.
- Close the properties menu.
- Now, drag the 2nd PDF file into the Bluebeam Revu session and append to the end of the 1st PDF file. Both 1st and 2nd PDF files should have the same embedded fonts.
- Now go to Document > Document Properties > Fonts.
- Notice that there are now twice as many embedded fonts because they are now duplicates.
This becomes a problem when assembly dozens of PDF sub-documents into a single combined PDF because the file size grows quickly with duplicate/subset embedded fonts.
Some PDF editors (such as Wondershare PDFelement) are able to consolidate duplicate embedded fonts without removing ALL embedded fonts.
I cannot control the documents that were PDF'ed using "Microsoft Print to PDF"
