If you're preparing a paper for a conference submission or if you just want to ensure that your .pdf looks exactly the same on someone else's computer as it does on yours, then you need to know how to embed the fonts used in your pdf in the file itself. In this article, I'll explain how to do this in Windows using the popular Adobe Acrobat software and show you how to verify that you've done it successfully. For information on how to embed fonts using Linux, check out the companion article How to embed fonts in pdfs in Linux.