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 -- :wq mail uws xs4all nl web http://uwstopia.nl i wondered what went wrong -- and you will know us by the trail of dead
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