On 06/06/2008 08:53 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
2008/6/6 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
If it's just that they look unreadable on screen, you could try a
different pdf reader. I've had the experience that some strange
bitmapped fonts look better on acroread (from [1]) than on kpdf, xpdf.
No, the problem is that the idiot who created the documents is of the
over-engineering too-much-detail type. She embedded a font that looks
like her handwriting. The font itself displays fine. I simply cannot
distinguish the letters.
Dotan Cohen
Unless you're a Postscript programmer, this is not for the faint of
heart, but it is possible to replace one PDF (or Poscript) font with
another.
Read the debian-user thread that starts here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/09/msg00098.html
The options seem to be these:
1: Use Evince and create an Evince-hints file that redirects the
handwriting font to another one.
2: Use xpdf and create a custom xpdf-includes file. (If you can grok
"man xpdfrc," you're smarter than I am).
3: Use Ghostscript and set up a FONTPATH and create a font-name alias.
Then tell Ghostscript to create a new PDF file "-sDEVICE=pdfwrite."
Probably all of these methods will require that you remove the embedded
handwriting font from the Postscript file, and that'll be tricky. I'm
not a Postscript programmer, but I do know that it should be possible to
replace the font.
If the file is not covered by any NDA or privacy restriction, you could
send it to me, and I could try remove the offending font.
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