slightly OT concerning pdf's

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 18:11 -0800, NoOp wrote: 
> On 02/01/2011 10:02 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 22:19 -0600, Tommy Trussell wrote: 
> ...
> >> You may even find that the document has different sections and even
> >> whitespace encoded in different fonts. If this is a document that has
> >> been passed around among lots of authors over the years, there could
> >> be who-knows-what in it.
> > 
> > Bingo! This is an original "creation", but using AcroRead and clicking
> > on "file" / "properties" / "fonts", I found a font "MS-Mincho" that it
> > doesn't recognize on the actual font type line noting it as "Unknown".
> > While this is sorta/mostly OT, I sure learned something about pdf files.
> > I've passed this on to staff so that they can dwell on it and encode
> > their fonts used directly into the pdf's in the future. Thanks again, to
> > all who responded. 
> 
> There is no Bigno... the font issue that you complained about in an
> added post stated:
> 
> <quote>
> But, on my machine, I was seeing a space in the banner text, in the
> words "Initiative" and "Publication" to look like I nitiative and P
> ublication.
> </quote>
> 
> The font on that line is (as I've already mentioned) is:
> SymbolMT (Bold)
> 
> Why didn't you ever just post a screenshot of what *you* were seeing?

I have several screenshots, I just didn't want to crowd the list with
attachments to a topic I noted was kinda/mostly OT. 

But, as I have responded after, that is the problem noted by Acroread.
Nifty! Thanks anyway... problem solved thanks to the responses. Ric


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