[gentoo-user] Fonts (Ariel?) broken in acroread

[Grant Edwards]

I don't know when exactly, but sometime in the past 6 months or so,
font support in acroread got broken.  Most of the PDF documents
generated by MS Office don't render correctly. I think the most common
font that doesn't render properly is Ariel. Acroread didn't used to
have any problems with these documents, and viewing them with out
applications seems to work OK.

What gets rendered for Ariel is a _very_ ugly, very light, sans serif
font where lower-case letters are about 1/3 the height of upper case
letters.  It's really horrid.  Here's comparison of some text rendered
by acroread (left) and emacs (right):

  http://www.panix.com/~grante/acroread-vs-emacs.png

Acroread _used_ to render this document correctly.

I've asked Google but all the hits are about asian font support.

Any ideas what I'm missing?

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