* [gentoo-user] Fonts (Ariel?) broken in acroread
@ 2013-02-06 19:53 Grant Edwards
2013-02-06 20:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
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From: Grant Edwards @ 2013-02-06 19:53 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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.
What gets rendered for Ariel is a _very_ ugly, very light, sans serif
font where lower-case letters are about 1/3 the height of upper case
letters. It's really horrid. Here's comparison of some text rendered
by acroread (left) and emacs (right):
http://www.panix.com/~grante/acroread-vs-emacs.png
Acroread _used_ to render this document correctly.
I've asked Google but all the hits are about asian font support.
Any ideas what I'm missing?
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2013-02-06 19:53 [gentoo-user] Fonts (Ariel?) broken in acroread Grant Edwards
@ 2013-02-06 20:05 ` Grant Edwards
2013-02-06 20:30 ` Paul Hartman
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From: Grant Edwards @ 2013-02-06 20:05 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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
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2013-02-06 20:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
@ 2013-02-06 20:30 ` Paul Hartman
2013-02-06 20:36 ` Paul Hartman
2013-02-06 21:39 ` Grant Edwards
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From: Paul Hartman @ 2013-02-06 20:30 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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.
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fonts (Ariel?) broken in acroread
2013-02-06 20:30 ` Paul Hartman
@ 2013-02-06 20:36 ` Paul Hartman
2013-02-06 21:39 ` Grant Edwards
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From: Paul Hartman @ 2013-02-06 20:36 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
> 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
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* [gentoo-user] Re: Fonts (Ariel?) broken in acroread
2013-02-06 20:30 ` 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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From: Grant Edwards @ 2013-02-06 21:39 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 2013-02-06, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
> 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.
Yep, I do:
$ find /usr/share/fonts -iname '*arial*'
/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/arial.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/arialbd.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/arialbi.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/ariali.ttf
> 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.
Apparently not:
$ find /usr/share/fonts -iname '*calibri*'
$
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2013-02-06 21:39 ` Grant Edwards
@ 2013-02-06 21:43 ` Grant Edwards
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From: Grant Edwards @ 2013-02-06 21:43 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 2013-02-06, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2013-02-06, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> 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.
>
> Yep, I do:
No, wait -- wrong computer. I _was_ missing corefonts. After
installing corefonts (don't know how it got removed), acroread is
usable again. :)
>> 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.
>
> Apparently not:
>
> $ find /usr/share/fonts -iname '*calibri*'
> $
I did find some documents that use Calibri, but it appears to be
embedded in those docs.
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