title: Embed Fonts in Word Documents in Java published: true description: This article shows you how to embed fonts in a Word document using free API in java. tags: java,msword,library

If you use a custom font (anything other than Word’s built-in fonts) in your document, embedding those fonts ensures that whoever views the document sees it the way you intended. In this artilce, we will show you how to embed true type fonts when creating a Word document or saving a Word document to a PDF file, by using Free Spire.Doc for Java.

Embed Fonts in a Word Document

```java import com.spire.doc.Document; import com.spire.doc.FileFormat; import com.spire.doc.PrivateFontPath; import com.spire.doc.documents.Paragraph; import com.spire.doc.fields.TextRange;

public class EmbedPrivateFont {

public static void main(String[] args) {

    //create a Word document 
    Document document = new Document();

    //add a paragraph 
    Paragraph paragraph = document.addSection().addParagraph();

    //load the private font
    PrivateFontPath fontPath = new PrivateFontPath();
    fontPath.setFontName("Otto");
    fontPath.setFontPath("C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Desktop\\Otto.TTF");

    //embed a private font in Word document
    document.setEmbedFontsInFile(true);
    document.getPrivateFontList().add(fontPath);

    //add text to the paragraph and apply the embedded font
    TextRange tr = paragraph.appendText("Dev.to \nA publishing platform for developers to share ideas.");

    //apply font to text range
    tr.getCharacterFormat().setFontName("Otto");
    tr.getCharacterFormat().setFontSize(34f);

    //save to file
    document.saveToFile("EmbedFonts.docx", FileFormat.Docx_2013);
}

} ```

Embed Fonts in a Converted PDF Document

```java import com.spire.doc.Document; import com.spire.doc.PrivateFontPath; import com.spire.doc.ToPdfParameterList; import com.spire.doc.documents.Paragraph; import com.spire.doc.fields.TextRange;

import java.util.*;

public class EmbedPrivateFontInConvertedPDF {

public static void main(String[] args) {

    //create a Word document 
    Document document = new Document();

    //add a paragraph 
    Paragraph paragraph = document.addSection().addParagraph();

    //load the private font
    PrivateFontPath fontPath = new PrivateFontPath();
    fontPath.setFontName("Otto");
    fontPath.setFontPath("C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Desktop\\Otto.TTF");

    //add text to the paragraph
    TextRange tr = paragraph.appendText("Dev.to \nA publishing platform for developers to share ideas.");

    //apply font to text range
    tr.getCharacterFormat().setFontName("Otto");
    tr.getCharacterFormat().setFontSize(34f);

    //create a list and add the font path as an element
    List<PrivateFontPath> pathList = new LinkedList<>();
    pathList.add(fontPath);

    //create a ToPdfParameterList object and set the private font paths
    ToPdfParameterList toPdfParameterList = new ToPdfParameterList();
    toPdfParameterList.setPrivateFontPaths(pathList);

    //save the document to PDF
    document.saveToFile("EmbedFonts.pdf",toPdfParameterList);
}

} ```