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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Generating PDF's in kword: font problems
From:       "Claus O. Wilke" <wilke () caltech ! edu>
Date:       2003-01-26 22:36:18
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What you are describing is actually a bug in the Acrobat Reader, rather than 
in KDE. Acrobat Reader does a terrible job rendering bitmapped data on 
screen. You get similarly horrible results if you include bitmapped graphics 
(jpeg or png, for example) into pdf files. However, if the bitmapped data has 
a sufficiently high resolution (say 600DPI or more), then these files print 
fine, as you can verify when you print your example pdf on a decent printer. 

Conclusion: Don't use Acrobat Reader (or complain with Adobe, and hope that 
they care).

However, there is another bug here: For both Times New Roman and Arial, a 
different font has been embedded (Times looks like Arial, and Arial looks 
like Comic Sans). Comic Sans seems to be fine. 

Claus

>Mmm... adding the font path to qt's configuration has the same effect: it 
>embeds type3 fonts in the pdf file which results in undesirable quality.
>
>As it seems that people doesn't understand what's the actual problem, I'll 
>share these files for a while: 
>
>
>
>1) a screenshot of kword with those nice fonts
>http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~uga/shot.png
>
>2)The PDF file created under kword. The fonts are selected to be EMBEDDED. 
>http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~uga/print.pdf
>
>3) A screenshot of the pdf file, in case someone doesn't have Acrobat Reader 
>installed.
>http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~uga/shot2.png
>
>
>If you see the pdf file under ghostview/kghostview it looks ok, but try to 
>open it under Acrobat Reader, and you'll see what I mean. See File->Document 
>Properties->Fonts for more info on the file.
>
>!!!!
>
>Now, thanks to you I found this:
>
>http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/x346.html
>
>I didn't know that it was possible to actually convert ttf fonts to type 1, 
>but it seems to be indeed (I haven't tried yet)
>
>This has a few drawbacks I guess:
>
>1) You need to convert the fonts to Type1 first
>
>2) One has to choose the proper one in kword (not ttf that looks ok....)



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Claus Wilke

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