Thanks for that input, Wayne. Have passed along to folks who can hopefully do something with that recommendation.
-alan -- Alan McClellan OpenSolaris Documentation Community Manager #32171 +1 719-352-0993 http://blogs.sun.com/docexchange/ W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > 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. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > docs-discuss mailing list > docs-discuss at opensolaris.org >
