Re: Blurry fonts in printed invoices
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:00:09 +0200
Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
...
> Here is what I get when I print www.debian.org to a PDF with iceweasel
> 3.0~rc2-2 (output of pdffonts v3.00 from poppler-utils 0.8.4-1.1):
>
> name type emb sub uni object ID
> ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
> CairoFont-0-0 CID Type 0C yes no yes 6 0
> BitstreamVeraSans CID TrueType yes no yes 9 0
> ArialBold CID TrueType yes no yes 11 0
> Arial CID TrueType yes no yes 12 0
> DejaVuSansBold CID TrueType yes no yes 17 0
> BitstreamVeraSansMono CID TrueType yes no yes 18 0
> CairoFont-6-0 CID Type 0C yes no yes 73 0
> KochiGothic CID TrueType yes no yes 74 0
I get (same IW, pdffonts 3.02 from xpdf-utils 3.02-1.3):
name type emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
VKJNGT+f-4-0 TrueType yes yes yes 88 0
RRTVUI+f-0-0 TrueType yes yes yes 9 0
PGUGBG+f-1-0 TrueType yes yes yes 13 0
[none] Type 3 yes no yes 20 0
[none] Type 3 yes no yes 32 0
GMTXSU+f-7-0 Type 1C yes yes yes 103 0
RXRETH+f-6-0 Type 1C yes yes yes 101 0
MFZMRR+f-5-0 TrueType yes yes yes 99 0
[none] Type 3 yes no yes 108 0
[none] Type 3 yes no yes 112 0
[none] Type 3 yes no yes 115 0
Which is pretty much what I reported in my previous message.
> The text that looks OK in your PDF has no CSS font specifications
> associated with it, so iceweasel should render it using your configured
> default font. The elements with the ugly fonts in the PDF, on the other
> hand, all have this CSS declaration:
>
> font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
>
> Here is how my system matches these names:
>
> $ for F in Arial Helvetica sans-serif; do fc-match $F; done
> Arial.ttf: "Arial" "Normal"
> n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular"
> Vera.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman"
>
> These font files come from the packages msttcorefonts, gsfonts-x11, and
> ttf-bitstream-vera, respectively. Do you have these packages installed?
> If not, does installing them give you nicer fonts in the PDF? If you do
> not want to befoul your system with the evil runes of Redmond then you
> could try installing ttf-liberation instead.
I had the latter two installed, but not the MS fonts. I had actually
tried earlier to install them to see if it would help; it didn't, so I
removed them. I installed liberation, and my above pdffonts output is with
gsfonts-x11, ttf-bitstream-vera and ttf-liberation all installed. What
could be wrong?
> Florian |
Thanks,
Celejar
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