Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Wed May 14 14:08:44 UTC 2014


On 05/14/2014 12:33 AM, Anthony Shipman wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2014 04:06:43 pm Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> A little better in rendering the font, but the chosen font is this
>> little skinny font that is really not readable and will not project well
>> compared with whatever font evince is using.
>>
> Is the example at http://i.imgur.com/8hrG3Tp.png the sort of thing
> that you are seeing? I have a few documents like this.

Yep.  That is what I am seeing in Acrobat.

> The pdffonts program reports, for one of them:
>
>> pdffonts USB\ 3.1\ Specification\ Welcome\ Message.pdf
> name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
> ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
> Arial                                TrueType          no  no  no       5  0
> Arial                                CID TrueType      yes no  yes      8  0
> Symbol                               CID TrueType      yes no  yes     13  0
>
> Installing the msttcorefonts package will provide Arial. This fixed the
> problem for me.
>

What rpm provides this?  I tried a couple of 'whatprovides' and came up 
empty.




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