[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 66922] Several texts (with monospaced fonts) are seen with spaces within

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66922

--- Comment #6 from James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com> ---
> I opened again the PDF, and the result was very similar (the letters
> were not identical, of course)

Adobe includes a pair of multiple master fonts with acroread.  It uses
them to substitute for missing latin fonts.  The individual glyphs are
scaled to match the embedded metrics.

The fonts are:

    ZX______.PFB (Adobe Sans MM)
    ZY______.PFB (Adobe Serif MM)

MM fonts are *hard* to create and the MM concept was abandoned when t1
fonts were replaced with cff fonts in sfnt containers (otf fonts).

No one has released an MM font under a DFSG license, and AFAIK support
for them has not been added to any DFSG licensed pdf viewer.

For many years now even Adobe has strongly advised everyone to include
fonts in pdf documents, and not to rely on font substitution.

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