On 2007. 12. 12., Wednesday 15:19, Dave Howorth wrote: > > I have a problem related to the creation of pdf files. It works, > > technically, but the resulting file has lots of spacing problems. Words > > are broken up as if extra spaces were inserted. E.g. I open > > http://www.opensuse.org/ in konqueror, then Location -> Print -> Print to > > File (PDF). Then I open the pdf file I created and e.g. in the top left > > corner text is broken up as "op ensuse.org". Also, the bottom of some of > > the characters are misaligned, like the l ("el") is visibly higher than > > the n in the word "Download". Printing the pdf file on paper gives the > > same results so it's not just on the screen. The same happens when > > printing from OOo also. All this happened in opensuse 10.2. I also tried > > opensuse 10.3, which gives a different output, but also contains spacing > > and aligment probles (e.g. in 10.3 the n is higher up than the l in the > > word "Download"). > > Tom > > Sounds like a broken font. Try to use a different font to see if the > problem goes away (perhaps use a well-known English/Latin-1 font because > they are least likely to have problems).
Thanks, Dave, that seems to be the right track. I'm still experimenting with programs/fonts/settings. What I found so far is that the problem depends on the type of the font used. Postscript Type 1 fonts work well. Opentype and TrueType fonts all seem to produce a horrible output. But I don't think it's the fonts that are broken, since most truetypes I tried are from the MS TTF package. What I tried so far: TrueType: Luxi Serif, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Verdana OpenType: Estrangelo Midyat Type 1: Luxi Sans, Nimbus Mono L, Nimbus Roman No9 L, Utopia It is also very strange that the misalignment between the letters l and n (distance between baselines) does not seem to be proportional to size, ie. small sizes are much more out of line than big sizes. Tom -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
