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1answer
194 views

PDF editor to change font size

I have some e-books in PDF and Kindle, but the font is too small to read on it. I want to make fonts larger in PDF files so that the pictures and other stuff in it is unchanged (therefore I cannot use ...
3
votes
0answers
139 views

How to improve evince font smoothing

I'm wondering if it is possible to change evince font rendering and make it render fonts like adobe acrobat reader.
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0answers
53 views

Font issue with PDF viewer

after having installed the msfont package for use Arial and Times New Roman I started having all sort of problems with fonts in Ubuntu. Now if I open a pdf file the document viewer shows no text and ...
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vote
1answer
382 views

How to change the font for a pdf file

I would love to change the default font that comes with a pdf that i have, i would like to pick one from my system font cache: how i can do that ? I am used with evince but any pdf reader will be ...
3
votes
1answer
592 views

Why do this PDF's fonts appear unreadable on my machine?

I'm trying to read The Art of Assembly Language as per this answer on Stack Overflow. When I open it on my Ubuntu 12.04 box, it looks like this: I haven't tested it on another machine, but this ...
3
votes
2answers
323 views

Why do some PDFs have such ugly fonts in Document Viewer?

Why are the fonts in Document Viewer so ugly and non-antialiased?
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votes
1answer
226 views

problem with Font in pdf fils?

I have a problem when you open pdf files in Ubuntu where the files appear in the form of letters is understood that I note have installed the language packs. And when you open the file on the windows ...
2
votes
1answer
313 views

After overriding some fonts, Document Viewer and others are not showing some texts

After copying the fonts from my Windows XP system to the /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ folder, the Document Viewer (version 2.23.0) is no more showing some texts (as the summary of my pdf). The same ...
2
votes
1answer
1k views

Fonts are not embedded into a pdf?

I have created a pdf file using the pdflatex command but some fonts are not embedded into it. Please see the output of pdffonts. I have also checked "updmap --edit" to see whether the option ...
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2answers
1k views

How can I specify a more appropriate font substitution?

A particular PDF I have uses a non-embedded font named "TimesNRMT" that is not installed on my system. Instead of substituting the font with a similar one such as Times New Roman, Document Viewer is ...
2
votes
2answers
806 views

Why is Evince not displaying application fonts/text for me?

Any time I use Evince, it just shows boxes where all the text should be. Instead, it uses the box symbol which I know stands for not being able to find a character. This problem occurs on every menu, ...