On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-02-06, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> 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. 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. If you open /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread in a text editor, it is actually a shell script. There is a section that has: # Enable this if you want Adobe Reader to cache Font-config fonts ACRO_ENABLE_FONT_CONFIG=1 export ACRO_ENABLE_FONT_CONFIG Maybe you can try commenting that out and see if it makes a difference.
