The Grumpy Editor's Guide to PDF Viewers
Posted Nov 30, 2004 5:23 UTC (Tue) by
iabervon (subscriber, #722)
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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to PDF Viewers by jwb
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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to PDF Viewers
That seems to be an issue of the fonts that the programs have access to. It looks like xpdf doesn't have the original font, and is using a different one with different metrics instead, which causes the document's typography to be messed up. Notice that the fonts don't even really have the same aspect ratio (xpdf is using a much squarer font). Acroread probably has the fonts that people actually use stashed away somewhere, so it can render documents more nicely.
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