Re: Still Font Discrepancies?

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:
>> http://www.testors.com/tes_cds/color_charts/4600_MM_(Acrylic).pdf
> 
> However, none of these fonts (or a subset) is embedded in the document,
> causing Evince to fallback to regular FontConfig font lookups. It is likely
> you don't have these fonts on your system (try with fc-list), so you end up
> with whatever the default is (most likely Bitstream Vera or DejaVu). Since
> the metrics for this font do not match the metrics of the actually intended
> fonts, you get horizontal shifting effects: overlapping letters and ugly
> kerning.

So, then the question is, what did acroread on the same computer do to
display it properly. What it displayed is definitely Garamond and
Helvetica Condensed, by my trained eye. :)

Regarding use friendliness, I wonder if it would make sense to display a
messagebox like some programs do that the document contains fonts that
are not on the system and the display might look odd.

--Pat