How to embed Arial in PDF when PDF has Helvetica?

How to embed Arial in PDF when PDF has Helvetica? So, I've got a PDF file that's generated by a program that uses the Base 14 fonts, so that it contains "Helvetica" and "Times Roman". When I look at that in my copy of Acrobat 7.0 on Windows (for example), it shows these with Arial and Times New Roman. I'm fine with that.
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bert [Entry]

"In order to embed a font in a PDF document you must have that font available on your system and the font needs to allow embedding. Almost all fonts allow embedding, so that shouldn't be a problem.

A manual way to embed a font in Acrobat (I'm using Acrobat 8 Professional, so hopefully it is available in 7 - I don't have access to 7 anymore) is to use the ""TouchUp Text Tool""

Tools > Advanced Editing > TouchUp Text Tool

With the tool selected, click on some text that uses the font you want to embed to select it.
Right click and choose Properties...
Choose the Text tab
Look for the Permissions Field - It will tell you if the font can be embedded
Directly to the Right of that information is a checkbox for ""Embed""
Check Embed
Hit Close
Save the Document
That font should now be embedded - check the Fonts setting to make sure

File > Properties... > Fonts

You'll have to repeat this process for each font you want to embed."

bert [Entry]

"URW++ has released GPL versions of all the standard Postscript fonts. Unfortunately they're hard to find on their own, the easiest way to get them is from a Ghostscript installation.

Once you've installed those fonts, you'll have Helvetica, although it might be under a different name."