Embed fonts into PDF export from model builder
I recently needed to share an image of a model in modelbuilder to an external client who does not have ESRI software. Through the model builder tab > Model > Export I created a PDF of the model. It all looked fine for me.
So I attached it to an email and sent it to the client. For them the text looked like morse code so the PDF was useless.
It appears that the export process does not embed fonts and there is no UI for adjusting options when exporting to PDF in model builder.
I asked the ESRI document assistant AI and that confirms its a lack of embedded fonts but erroneously points you to the export tool under the share tab in ArcPro.
So my idea is simply if you are not going to expose PDF options such as embedding fonts through that export button on the model builder tab then please embed fonts as a default so people can actually read the model!
As it stands if your clients don't have those fonts (and not everyone has ESRI software) then sharing a PDF of the model is completely pointless as no one can read it.