Fixing a PDF/Font Issue

[Michael A. Peters]

On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 11:30, mlauterbach at mail.wtamu.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 08:28:40 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 08:06:24PM -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> >> The problem is that when I print to PDF file using the "create PDF"
> >> function of the AbiWord print menu, this particular font gets screwed up
> >> royally. Other fonts I have purchased work just fine.
> >
> >If you use the font with another app (say open office) and generate a PDF
> >do you get the same problem ?  Does the pdf read ok with other
> >tools/systems
> >(ie is the PDF creation or reading broken ?)
> >
> >> Here is the pdf file that produced pdf image:
> >>
> >> http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/misc/fonts.pdf
> >
> >My FC2 simply declines to render the bits in that font.
> >
> >Alan
> 
> My FC2 doesn't attempt to display that font either.  Also tried it on
> winXP SP2 with Acrobat Reader 6.0 and it wouldn't display the font either.
>  I'm guessing PDF creation is broken.
> 
> Matt

I have opened a bug with gnome for this - and gotten permission from the
font foundry for gnome developers to use the font for development
purposes.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144884