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From: thelma@×××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 20:56:10
Message-Id: 9a66665a-731b-79c8-11c5-843caf8c568a@sys-concept.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts by David W Noon
1 On 03/08/2017 11:32 AM, David W Noon wrote:
2 > On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 16:39:55 -0700, Thelma (thelma@×××××××××××.com) wrote
3 > about "Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts" (in
4 > <9082ed1b-ccad-31e6-36ff-33feb2d0c37a@×××××××××××.com>):
5 >
6 > [snip]
7 >> The two PFD documents that I created using both versions of Firefox:
8 >> www-client/firefox
9 >> www-client/firefox-bin
10 >>
11 >> from pdfinfo:
12 >> Producer: cairo 1.9.5 (using Firefox)
13 >> Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.16 (using Firefox)
14 >>
15 >> Both files are having problem viewing fonts using "flpsed".
16 >
17 > I have created a PDF of your message to which this message is replying.
18 > I used Thunderbird, which uses cairo-1.9.5 also. See if the attached
19 > document renders correctly with flpsed. If it does, the culprit will
20 > likely be pdfTeX-1.40.16. If it looks ugly, it could well be Cairo --
21 > but given Cairo's purpose, that seems unlikely.
22 >
23
24 The "Tbird_msg.pdf" you attached and other pdf files that I downloaded
25 from different places are using: DejaVuSans.ttf font as well but they
26 look much, much nicer than the one I create using my Firefox.
27
28 XFT_DEBUG=1 flpsed Tbird_msg.pdf
29 XFT_DEBUG=1
30 XftFontInfoFill: /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf: 0 (14 pixels)
31
32 --
33 Thelma

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