Re: PDF reader that overrides fonts
2008/6/6 Mumia W.. <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>:
> 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.
I'm not a postscript programmer... but I'm not faint of heart either...
> 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."
Ouch. This is not going to be easy...
> 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.
>
I appreciate the offer, I'm sending the file in private email. It is
not sensitive information, but I know better than to post attachments
to mailing lists. Thanks!
Dotan Cohen
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