Re: Still Font Discrepancies?



2007-03-30 klockan 03:18 skrev Pat Suwalski:
> 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. :)

Are those the real fonts or substitutes? Iirc Acrobat Reader includes some
special "generic" fonts that fit multiple metrics.

> 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.

Might be an idea, but a modal error/warning dialog is *not* good :)

  mvrgr, Wouter

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