Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Electronically Filing a Patent requires critical digital literacy

When we got to the Step 5 section of the diagram the site started challenging the Fonts embedded in our PDF document. A few top content management staff was summons to address the following error messages and get the patent filed. After the event, one neophtype asked whether this was a good example of critical digital literacy. The other members smiled as to imply Absolutely!

The attached PDF file references a non-embedded font: ArialMT. Please remove file, embed the font and reattach.
The attached PDF file references a non-embedded font: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT. Please remove file, embed the font and reattach.
The attached PDF file references a non-embedded font: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT. Please remove file, embed the font and reattach.
The attached PDF file references a non-embedded font: Verdana. Please remove file, embed the font and reattach.
The attached PDF file references a non-embedded font: Verdana-Bold. Please remove file, embed the font and reattach.
The attached PDF file references a non-embedded font: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT. Please remove file, embed the font and reattach.





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3 comments:

  1. UnknownSeptember 8, 2012 at 10:30 AM

    I had the same issue and spent hours on this, and overcame by using free online convertor http://www.freepdfconvert.com/ - hope it helps

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  2. UnknownMarch 23, 2015 at 4:27 PM

    Did you solve this? Trying to submit right now and no idea how to fix the error.

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  3. AnonymousMay 13, 2015 at 8:58 AM

    It didn't solve it for me, still getting the same errors (convert WORD doc to PDF)

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