Re: font substitution by acroread [SOLVED]
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 08:02:42 -0500, I 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
>
> When I view these in acroread (8.1.7-0.1, lenny), I get some font that's
> really horrible to read.
>
> ... I'd appreciate any suggestions.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:19:26 +0000 (UTC), Camaleón replied:
> I managed that by creating ~/.fonts.conf file with the following content.
That didn't work for me with acroread.
> So, I for my self, installed (copy&paste) all the *.ttf fonts from a
> windows system and placed under "/usr/local/share/fonts" in order they
> don't become messed up with the rest of the system fonts.
That was a piece of cake and solved the problem. Thanks. I had thought I
would have to register the fonts somehow, but simply depositing them was
enough. The PDFs display well now, and fc-match also reports them.
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:41:20 -0500, Chris Jones suggested:
> but you could try to adapt this:
>
> Add the following to /etc/fonts/local.conf:
Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't tried this because adding the ttf files
was simple enough and worked.
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