Alternatively, run Ghostscript with the temporary flag: gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf -c ".setpdfwrite <</NeverEmbed [/Courier /Helvetica /Times /Symbol /ZapfDingbats]>> setdistillerparams" -f input.pdf