Re: latex->xpdf

To: Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: latex->xpdf
From: John Griffiths <john@capmon.com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 11:01:07 +1000
Message-id: <[🔎] 3.0.5.32.20020521110107.00963e20@mailhost.capmon.com>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 87y9ee5nid.fsf@labatt.uhoreg.ca>
References: <[🔎] 20020521003656.GL32373@jmelhuish>

>Hmm.  I just ran xpdf on an old pdf file that was created using TeX, and
>it says:
>  Error: This document uses Type 3 fonts - some text may not be correctly
displayed
>and gives the same kind of display as what you describe, so this may be
>your problem.  xpdf doesn't understand Type 3 fonts. (Type 3 fonts allow
>for bitmapped fonts.)
>

Type 3 fonts are horrors wherever they're used, even if they display
correctly you can't cut and paste the text from them.


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