[gentoo-user] Re: Fonts (Ariel?) broken in acroread

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

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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