On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Just found this which seems to describe exactly the same problem you're having along with some possible workarounds: http://www.linux-archive.org/debian-user/322514-font-substitution-acroread.html
