Re: acroread and anti-aliased text [solved]

[Brian Stults <bstults@soc.ufl.edu>]

Tom Badran wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 Dec 2002 4:36 pm, Brian Stults wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > When I generate pdf's and view them in acroread (5.0.5) the fonts are
> > very fuzzy.  For example...  I create a file in OpenOffice using the
> > Arial font which is anti-aliased.  I then print it to a postscript file.
> >  If I view it through gv, it looks just as fuzzy at first, but then I
> > choose to antialias it, and it looks great.  Then I convert it to a pdf
> > using ps2pdf.  When I view it in gv, it still looks great.  When I view
> > it in acroread, it looks very fuzzy.  Even when I view it in acroread
> > under MS Windows, it looks very bad.
>
>
> This problem is to do with openoffice's printer font replacement.
>
> To fix it, run oopadmin, click on the properties buttin for your printer, and 
> make sure you have "enable font replacement" turned on, and there should be 
> about 8 replacements including "Arial -> Helvetica" and "Times New Roman -> 
> Times". If you turn this off, your pdfs will be very poor quality under 
> anything but ghostscript viewers (gv, ggv, kghostview etc).
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Tom

Enabling font replacement did the trick.  Thanks so much!  I've been 
living with ugly pdf's for a while now - booting my laptop into Windows 
to generate them when it mattered.  This is like a breath of fresh air. 
 I've made about 10 meaningless pdf's in the past 15 minutes just to 
see how pretty they are.

Thanks again!


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