As I mentioned in a separate thread:

http://tinyurl.com/solaris1

The problem is that the document team is using the SolBookMono font, which is a 
type 1 font, in generating Solaris/ZFS-related documents.  Freetype 2.3.6, when 
trying to fix a bug, introduced another bug which cause some rendering problems 
for some type 1 fonts.

I have regenerated these pdf files by replacing the SolBookMono fonts with the 
plain 'ol Courier fonts, and the invisible fonts are now visible.  Please see:

http://tinyurl.com/zfs-pdf

As Richard mentioned, this bug has been fixed in Build 97, which will be at 
least a few weeks before it is percolated to OpenSolaris.

Because OpenSolaris is not that advanced in handling esoteric fonts, and that 
there is no guarantee that the same problem, perhaps by a different bug, will 
not reappear, it is sincerely hoped that the document team could stick to fonts 
that are generally available.  (In the past two months or so, I had to boot 
into either SuSE or Vista--something I have been able to avoid for quite some 
time, solely for the purpose of reading Solaris/ZFS userguides.)

Thanks a whole lot.
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