Re: acroread crashes
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 10:32:57 +0100 (CET), Holger Rauch <Holger.Rauch@heitec.de> wrote:
> > If the file breaks
> > everything, contact the author and tell them they've got busted PDFs.
>
> It probably isn't the file if it looks all right in acroread on a SuSE
> system. I guess it has something to do with missing fonts. Could it be
> possible that I'm missing some font packages in my Debian installation?
This can be a problem with PDF's if non-standard fonts aren't embedded.
The PDF standard has a small number of built-in fonts (Courier, Times,
Helvetica, Zapf Dingbats, I think that's it). So, if the document
specifies a font you don't have on your system, AcroRead will just
substitute something else. Check File->Document->Fonts... To my mind,
this is the biggest problem with PDF's and can destroy the whole
notion of "Portable"...
--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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