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From: Steve Kleene on 8 Feb 2010 15:50 On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 08:02:42 -0500, I wrote: > I often come across PDFs containing Arial font (as reported by pdffonts from > poppler-utils). For example, this one: > > http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/archive/10prmrpiira_pa.pdf > > When I view these in acroread (8.1.7-0.1, lenny), I get some font that's > really horrible to read. > > ... I'd appreciate any suggestions. On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:19:26 +0000 (UTC), CamaleĆ³n replied: > I managed that by creating ~/.fonts.conf file with the following content. That didn't work for me with acroread. > So, I for my self, installed (copy&paste) all the *.ttf fonts from a > windows system and placed under "/usr/local/share/fonts" in order they > don't become messed up with the rest of the system fonts. That was a piece of cake and solved the problem. Thanks. I had thought I would have to register the fonts somehow, but simply depositing them was enough. The PDFs display well now, and fc-match also reports them. On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:41:20 -0500, Chris Jones suggested: > but you could try to adapt this: > > Add the following to /etc/fonts/local.conf: Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't tried this because adding the ttf files was simple enough and worked. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org |