On 03/08/2017 11:32 AM, David W Noon wrote: > On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 16:39:55 -0700, Thelma (the...@sys-concept.com) wrote > about "Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts" (in > <9082ed1b-ccad-31e6-36ff-33feb2d0c...@sys-concept.com>): > > [snip] >> 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". > > I have created a PDF of your message to which this message is replying. > I used Thunderbird, which uses cairo-1.9.5 also. See if the attached > document renders correctly with flpsed. If it does, the culprit will > likely be pdfTeX-1.40.16. If it looks ugly, it could well be Cairo -- > but given Cairo's purpose, that seems unlikely. >
The "Tbird_msg.pdf" you attached and other pdf files that I downloaded from different places are using: DejaVuSans.ttf font as well but they look much, much nicer than the one I create using my Firefox. XFT_DEBUG=1 flpsed Tbird_msg.pdf XFT_DEBUG=1 XftFontInfoFill: /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf: 0 (14 pixels) -- Thelma
