On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 08:02:42AM EST, Steve Kleene wrote:
> I often come across PDFs containing Arial font (as reported by pdffonts from
> poppler-utils). For example, this one:
>
> http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/archive/10prmrpiira_pa.pdf
>
> When I view these in acroread (8.1.7-0.1, lenny), I get some font that's
> really horrible to read. The upper-case letters are about 4x taller than the
> lower-case letters.
I don't know have the time right now to check whether this works with
pdf's, but you could try to adapt this:
→ Add the following to /etc/fonts/local.conf:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
<!-- Get rid of hard-coded Arial & Sans-Serif in web pages. -->
<match target="pattern">
<test name="prefer_outline">
<bool>true</bool>
</test>
<test name="family">
<string>dejavu sans</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
<string>Verdana</string>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="pattern">
<edit name="prefer_outline">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
→ As root, recreate fontconfig cache:
# fc-cache -r -v -s
→ As regular user check the results:
$ fc-match arial
verdana.ttf: "Verdana" "Normal"
Obviously requires that your version of acroread for linux invokes
fontconfig to serve the fonts.
CJ
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