slightly OT concerning pdf's

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 10:05 +0100, Nils Kassube wrote: 
> 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.

As a postscript, here's the ~real~ giggle. Using Adobe to view the pdf,
it pops up an announcement box that states I need to install Japanese
Fonts in order to view the document correctly. I REALLY need to clear
our work computers of Windows and get Linux installed. If I were running
the place, it would have been gone LONG ago. The simple pdf's that I
create, using OO, never fail to load and display correctly. Since I
don't have a Windows machine, I have no clue what causes this. Ric


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