Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

[Mike Wright]

05/14/2014 11:30 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> On 05/14/2014 04:36 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 05/14/14 22:08, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>> Google is your friend.....
>
> My google foo is weak.  Maybe that is because I knew Page when he was
> quite young; his father was one of my profs.
>
>> http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
>
> Nice, but that means you have to do the build yourself.  Is this in any
> additional repos for Fedora?

I found this:

http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-the-microsoft-core-fonts-on-fedora-18-and-19/