Document Generation
Features
Adding Custom Fonts to your Templates
overview one of the benefits of cloudfiles document generation is the ability to use your own custom fonts in templates and preserve them perfectly in the final generated pdf whether you’re using brand specific typography, special symbols, or non standard fonts, embedding them ensures the final output retains exactly what you designed without embedding, the conversion process may substitute fonts, altering layout, spacing, or even mis rendering characters what embedding does when you embed a font in your word ( docx) template, you’re packaging the font file within the document itself that means when cloudfiles converts the docx to pdf, the original font is used—no fallback or substitution microsoft’s official guidance explains that embedding fonts helps when sharing documents with users or systems that might not have the same fonts installed, especially when converting to pdf how to embed a custom font in your docx template open your word template and navigate to file → options → save under the section preserve fidelity when sharing this document , check embed fonts in the file you can then select whether to embed only characters used (reduces file size) or embed all characters (better if the file will be edited) ensure your template uses the custom font where needed save the updated template (consider using a new filename so you keep your original version unchanged) upload or republish this template in cloudfiles document generation so it becomes your new active template generate a test document from that template and verify in the resulting pdf that the custom font appears correctly—no substitution, spacing changes, or missing characters for more details on how to embed fonts, you can refer to this help article from microsoft https //support microsoft com/en gb/office/benefits of embedding custom fonts cb3982aa ea76 4323 b008 86670f222dbc#officeversion=windows https //support microsoft com/en gb/office/benefits of embedding custom fonts cb3982aa ea76 4323 b008 86670f222dbc#officeversion=windows