Thanks for that input, Wayne. Have passed along to folks who can 
hopefully do something with that recommendation.

-alan

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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.
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