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 E52DE1388C0 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:37:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 401DA21C01B; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:37:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vc0-f169.google.com (mail-vc0-f169.google.com [209.85.220.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B7C79E0025 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:37:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f169.google.com with SMTP id n10so1182457vcn.28 for ; Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:37:16 -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=oGDrgKWNUBXQb9D7msTbNHOxN8iz2Lfa0hyUlXgIGaA=; b=pDw5WsUW5jbtOnOH/bqrQR7lvSPBzoc8pugXNTj8IiAmnY3AbM5ZSb9G7c6dNPs/TL 8C4kWfNOMSGcqTY4YOmLgmE6SFTJHLJiQFQ2Z5R6ranEDYrpcaJAVLpKT5QmHYFVl7LS HHr/t3ry9e/K9hZTIx7aqquiX/qdg4rdpiq4NLajtIL8EL1qKNLXUu9+oXARTvoezIC+ OB2D5gUAIaHMzdst8ebNS1di8/Lev/6lv+NdN3S9zxrj5I2huUvxA0jZwehUJVs5iW/H idvsMfV/FAu+Gq/kpFfGJR8CEWU3sqSFdZ/uc2TuvZ8xgQLrfosddPuoL7uFhFVUR8yu BVOA== X-Received: by 10.52.88.197 with SMTP id bi5mr30330342vdb.58.1360183036760; Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:37:16 -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 12:36:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Paul Hartman Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 14:36:56 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: SpDp3Gch7SA3UXdhQhOvNvqTc3s 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: 709fc6cf-8a3a-4e19-8f5b-0f190bd89283 X-Archives-Hash: fba156978556b1d2e4df4c5f4e0d685c On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > 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. Just found this which seems to describe exactly the same problem you're having along with some possible workarounds: http://www.linux-archive.org/debian-user/322514-font-substitution-acroread.html