Re: font substitution by acroread

["Wayne <linuxtwo@gmail.com>" <linuxtwo@gmail.com>]

Klaus Jantzen wrote:
> 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
> >
> > When I view these in acroread (8.1.7-0.1, lenny), I get some font that's
> > really horrible to read.  The upper-case letters are about 4x taller 
> > than the
> > lower-case letters.
> >
> > I don't have Arial on my Lenny system, so I assume that another font 
> > is being
> > substituted.  I don't know how this works.  By checking file-access 
> > times, I
> > found that a very large number of font files are touched when I open 
> > the PDF.
> > Files touched are, among other places, under
> >
> >   /etc/fonts
> >   /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/Resource/Font
> >   /usr/share/fonts
> >   /usr/share/texmf/fonts

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> Where did you find acroread?
> I have been searching for it, but could not locate it.

I have this in my sources.list for adobe acroread.

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main


Wayne