From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF8D1388C0 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:31:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8681721C00B; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:31:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ve0-f178.google.com (mail-ve0-f178.google.com [209.85.128.178]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 003B2E031D for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:31:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ve0-f178.google.com with SMTP id db10so1620129veb.37 for ; Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:31:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=D9qbatc29f3ZbQh7aJK0/eZAtO2YEZvetcrT9KojBYM=; b=rS345kWKLjzPy7pFsg/O2iZ0xnFAfUhwrADm7mGVQwm4mCxwwZHpJK9uCNcRnLdqUl NMFnAtKtpLGHHTrJrpgKwMdh2cqIGrUqkjKzSkdgT84kNr6/KwlsEhnxLx0dzXtShuyq bJsak2WmblHwddvK1lvIjQI9EuPXFoNv4Ryb9Pry5N2zkvnVMOV6QlS0G+QDJHdRuhum XhMrwBoe3GoyDZofy93zDB5whTQBiewFzO3jM5b2LUtjfhGIKFafwWNyAitYuWDAtrKT yyom8f4rI241qlCZCforbI+lcw40fpxFgBtW3Uzhard74HlFG4A8ROFLCKT4Mpce0mDN AzRg== X-Received: by 10.52.72.194 with SMTP id f2mr29956151vdv.106.1360182666173; Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:31:06 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.58.209.201 with HTTP; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 12:30:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Paul Hartman Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 14:30:46 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Jveu-jK2LneIx29h42SbffmeYxM Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fonts (Ariel?) broken in acroread To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 28f92944-66b1-4fe3-9786-d6bd6ed55add X-Archives-Hash: 25ba8fef2365c6c9c55316de30543cac On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-02-06, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I don't know when exactly, but sometime in the past 6 months or so, >> font support in acroread got broken. Most of the PDF documents >> generated by MS Office don't render correctly. I think the most common >> font that doesn't render properly is Ariel. Acroread didn't used to >> have any problems with these documents, and viewing them with out >> applications seems to work OK. > > Blerg. That should read "viewing them with _other_ applications seems > to work OK". IOW, emacs, epdfview, and mupdf all render the document > using the correct fonts. > >> http://www.panix.com/~grante/acroread-vs-emacs.png I just installed acroread (I usually use Okular) and mine works fine on all of the PDF files I tried... but I don't know if any files I have were generated by MS Office. Ensure your have the corefonts package installed. Newer versions of MS Office (2007+) don't use Arial as the default sans-serif font anymore, they use Calibri. I'm not sure if that one is included in corefonts or not. If you open /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread in a text editor, it is actually a shell script. There is a section that has: # Enable this if you want Adobe Reader to cache Font-config fonts ACRO_ENABLE_FONT_CONFIG=1 export ACRO_ENABLE_FONT_CONFIG Maybe you can try commenting that out and see if it makes a difference.