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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Fonts (Ariel?) broken in acroread
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:05:53 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <keud31$dj9$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: keuccc$3qv$1@ger.gmane.org

On 2013-02-06, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> 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

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! I just went below the
                                  at               poverty line!
                              gmail.com            



  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-06 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-06 19:53 [gentoo-user] Fonts (Ariel?) broken in acroread Grant Edwards
2013-02-06 20:05 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2013-02-06 20:30   ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2013-02-06 20:36     ` Paul Hartman
2013-02-06 21:39     ` Grant Edwards
2013-02-06 21:43       ` Grant Edwards

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