Fonts & character encoding

What the rule requires

When fonts aren’t embedded or character maps are broken, extracted text turns to garbage — copy-paste gibberish, screen readers announcing nonsense. It’s the #1 validator complaint in the wild, and it’s invisible to the eye.

How Proof clears it

1. 01

   Seventeen automatic repair passes cover embedding, character maps, and widths.

2. 02

   Unembedded fonts get metric-compatible replacements, and character-map plumbing is regenerated so extracted text is faithful.

3. 03

   Symbolic glyphs handled: symbolic checkbox glyphs are replaced with vector drawing.

What to expect

Every repair here is mechanical and invisible — the page looks the same; what changes is that validators, copy-paste, and assistive technology all read the same faithful text.