Re: font substitution by acroread
On 2010-02-08, Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
FWIW, the document looks fine in evince on Lenny (with MS fonts
installed).
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Liam O'Toole
Birmingham, United Kingdom
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