slightly OT concerning pdf's

[Nils Kassube]

Ric Moore wrote:
> Our Non-Profit staff created a pdf file for me to put on our website.
> I'm seeing spaces between some of the words. I opened the pdf in
> Ocular and xpdf, and they both look the same. So, I installed Adobe
> Acrobat Reader. The effect is less pronounced. Is there some
> difference between the way a PDF document is created in Windows that
> shows up using Linux? I'm thinking it might be a proportional font
> causing it, I dunno. Ric

I think the font used by the creating application is not installed on 
your machine and is therefore replaced with a similar looking font which 
is installed on your machine. You can avoid such a problem if you embed 
the used font during the creation of the file but usually that isn't 
done because it increases the file size.


Nils