> (a thought strikes me: could these font errors pertain to some pdf > files I include, which are musical scores made into a pdf by > Sibelius?)
I'm replying to my own post: this was indeed the case. When I removed the external materials, the problem went away and the printer's objections disappeared. However, this still leaves me with the problem of how to include these scores, which I must include. I am not competent either with musical notation or with the Sibelius software: the pdf files were kindly prepared for me by a friend from within Sibelius itself- though as is now apparent, without embedding the fonts. So the issue has become: Is there some way I can rectify this, by embedding the missing font in my own lyx document? IE, managing a missing embedding in an external file by embedding the font in the parent doc? Or is that unthinkable?