Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 06:32:13AM EST, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 17:12:54 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > What I vaguely had in mind is that you select a given string or > > paragraph, and you have an option called "Properties" maybe, that > > tells you everything about

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 17:12:54 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 04:09:22PM EST, Camaleón wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:44:55 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:13:42PM EST, Camaleón wrote: > > >> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:58:39 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-11 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:08:43 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:41:10PM EST, Tony Nelson wrote: >> > I was wondering if there was anything more reliable than just >> > looking. >> ... >> >> The pdffonts program in poppler-utils? > > Hm.. if you read the thread from the begi

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-11 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:41:10PM EST, Tony Nelson wrote: > On 10-02-10 17:12:54, Chris Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 04:09:22PM EST, Camaleón wrote: > ... > > > I mean, the only way I see to know what fonts are being used in a > > > document is by reading the meta information (font p

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-10 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-10 17:12:54, Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 04:09:22PM EST, Camaleón wrote: ... > > I mean, the only way I see to know what fonts are being used in a > > document is by reading the meta information (font properties) from > > a PDF reader but that is not indeed definitory a

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-10 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 04:09:22PM EST, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:44:55 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:13:42PM EST, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:58:39 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > [..] > > > >> The whole document uses "Times News Rom

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-10 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:44:55 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:13:42PM EST, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:58:39 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > [..] > >> The whole document uses "Times News Roman" :-) > > A cursory glance via evince tells me that you are probably

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-10 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:13:42PM EST, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:58:39 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > The whole document uses "Times News Roman" :-) A cursory glance via evince tells me that you are probably right about that, but how can you be sure of it -- with all the font s

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-10 Thread Wayne
Klaus Jantzen wrote: 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 rea

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-10 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:58:39 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:16:09AM EST, Lisi wrote: >> I have Arial on my Debian Lenny and the document from the URL that you >> posted does not use it, but an odd font that would be difficult to >> read. So it looks as though this soluti

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-10 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:16:09AM EST, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 08 February 2010 13:02:42 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.

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-10 Thread Klaus Jantzen
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.

Re: font substitution by acroread [SOLVED]

2010-02-08 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 08:02:42 -0500, I 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

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-02-08, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 08 February 2010 13:02:42 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 > >> I don't have Arial o

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-08 Thread Lisi
On Monday 08 February 2010 13:02:42 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 > I don't have Arial on my Lenny system, so I assume that

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-08 Thread Chris Jones
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),

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-08 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:02:42 -0500, Steve Kleene wrote: (...) > I can imagine two solutions but don't know how to execute either one. > First, I could arrange to have a sane font (e.g. Helvetica) substituted > instead of whatever one I'm getting now. I managed that by creating ~/.fonts.conf

font substitution by acroread

2010-02-08 Thread Steve Kleene
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