Re: font substitution by acroread
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:16:09AM EST, Lisi 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. :-(
Hm.. same here, it looks like Abadi condensed, a blocky font with lower
case glyphs that squat close to the baseline and very tall capitals
towering above them.
Affects the entire document.
Portable Document Format indeed.. or does the 'P' still stand for
proprietory..? :-)
CJ
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