Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 05/14/2014 08:58 AM, Mike Wright wrote:
> 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/ 
>
>
OK.  That points to an rpm.  I downloaded it and did a 'yum 
localinstall' which also installed cabextract as a dependency.

And still Acrobat is using the wrong font.  :(