On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 14:20:54 -0700, Thelma ([email protected]) wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts" (in <[email protected]>):
[snip] > It seems to me the problem is the creator of the pdf document (on my > system): pdfTeX-1.40.16 or cairo 1.9.5 Cairo should not be part of the problem. It is a vector rendering library. The part of X.Org that renders text is Pango. > Viewing these document via evnce, gv, gimp etc it show normal, nice > fonts; but when I open (same document) locally created via "flpsed" the > fonts are very rough. > > When I try to open any other PDF file via "flpsed", not created by me, > the fonts are nice looking. Okay, I think we are getting somewhere now. If evince shows the documents well, but flpsed does not, it would seem to me that the documents contain ambiguous font information. The other PDF viewers [evince, gv, etc.] seem able to resolve the ambiguity, but flpsed does not. This would indicate that the documents are not well formed. Can you try another PDF builder, such as LibreOffice or OpenOffice? If flpsed renders these PDF's well then your PDF builder is at fault. It is putting into the documents font specifications that do not match the installed fonts. The other PDF viewers possibly use a fuzzy matching algorithm that overcomes the ambiguity to select a suitable font. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* [email protected] (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
