On 06/06/2008 08:53 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
2008/6/6 Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>:If it's just that they look unreadable on screen, you could try a different pdf reader. I've had the experience that some strange bitmapped fonts look better on acroread (from [1]) than on kpdf, xpdf.No, the problem is that the idiot who created the documents is of the over-engineering too-much-detail type. She embedded a font that looks like her handwriting. The font itself displays fine. I simply cannot distinguish the letters. Dotan Cohen
Unless you're a Postscript programmer, this is not for the faint of heart, but it is possible to replace one PDF (or Poscript) font with another.
Read the debian-user thread that starts here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/09/msg00098.html The options seem to be these:1: Use Evince and create an Evince-hints file that redirects the handwriting font to another one. 2: Use xpdf and create a custom xpdf-includes file. (If you can grok "man xpdfrc," you're smarter than I am). 3: Use Ghostscript and set up a FONTPATH and create a font-name alias. Then tell Ghostscript to create a new PDF file "-sDEVICE=pdfwrite."
Probably all of these methods will require that you remove the embedded handwriting font from the Postscript file, and that'll be tricky. I'm not a Postscript programmer, but I do know that it should be possible to replace the font.
If the file is not covered by any NDA or privacy restriction, you could send it to me, and I could try remove the offending font.