Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Kumar Appaiah
<a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 01:11:32AM +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
>> > I have a problem opening the following PDF:
>> >
>> > http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker-Interview-Weblayout.pdf
>> >
>> > All PDF viewers on Debian seem to produce garbled output. Am I missing
>> > some fonts, or is there something else amiss?
>> >
>> > I use squeeze/sid, and can give you package versions if you could tell
>> > me which ones would be useful.
>> >
>>
>> Okay, have you tried to open this file with a standard app to view PDF
>> docs? I mean, have you tried Acrobat Reader?
>
> On another machine (CentOS) on which Acrobat is installed, I can
> confirm that Acrobat loads the document properly. But the free PDF
> viewers on that machine perform as badly as the ones in Debian.
>
Looking at the size and content of your problem PDF, I guess, it is
does not includes fonts. So, Camaleón is right, probably you need to
install MS TTF core fonts for proper rendering of that PDF.
--
Sincerely Yours'
Mark Goldshtein
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