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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to PDF ViewersThe Grumpy Editor's Guide to PDF ViewersPosted Nov 30, 2004 5:23 UTC (Tue) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to PDF Viewers by jwb Parent article: 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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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to PDF Viewers Posted Nov 30, 2004 7:40 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] If you want decent rendering out of xpdf, you simply have to point it at GhostScript's Type 1 fonts. I've also pointed it at all Type 1 fonts I own, including all the TeX Type 1 fonts; there really are some documents out there that use (e.g.) non-embedded Computer Modern...
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