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Replace all font glyphs in a PDF by converting them to outline shapes
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pdf-outline.md

1. Fix missing fonts

$ pdftocairo [original.pdf] -pdf [tmp.pdf]

2. Convert all used fonts to outline shapes

$ gs -o [file-with-outlines.pdf] -dNoOutputFonts -sDEVICE=pdfwrite [tmp.pdf]
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