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Re: font substitution by acroread



On Monday 08 February 2010 13:02:42 Steve Kleene wrote:
> I often come across PDFs containing Arial font (as reported by pdffonts
> from poppler-utils).  For example, this one:
>
>   http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/archive/10prmrpiira_pa.pdf

> I don't have Arial on my Lenny system, so I assume that another font is
> being substituted.  
[snip]
> Second, I could perhaps make 
> Arial available on Lenny.  [snip]
> and I'm not sure 
> if that would solve the acroread problem. 

I have Arial on my Debian Lenny and the document from the URL that you posted 
does not use it, but an odd font that would be difficult to read.  So it 
looks as though this solution could not be guaranteed to be effective. :-(

Lisi


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