On 2013-02-06, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2013-02-06, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On 2013-02-06, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> 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.
>
> Yep, I do:
No, wait -- wrong computer. I _was_ missing corefonts. After
installing corefonts (don't know how it got removed), acroread is
usable again. :)
>> 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.
>
> Apparently not:
>
> $ find /usr/share/fonts -iname '*calibri*'
> $
I did find some documents that use Calibri, but it appears to be
embedded in those docs.
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