On 03/07/2017 03:11 PM, David W Noon wrote: > On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 14:20:54 -0700, Thelma (the...@sys-concept.com) wrote > about "Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts" (in > <a804e20a-da35-89f0-a70d-2e5c1d3a4...@sys-concept.com>): > > [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.
Yes, I think this is the correct conclusion. I created PDF file using OpenOffice: Creator: OpenOffice 4.1.2 and flpsed displays the fonts very nice. The two PFD documents that I created using both versions of Firefox: www-client/firefox www-client/firefox-bin from pdfinfo: Producer: cairo 1.9.5 (using Firefox) Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.16 (using Firefox) Both files are having problem viewing fonts using "flpsed". -- Thelma
