[poppler] Weird rendering of a very simple pdf

William Bader williambader at hotmail.com
Fri Jul 6 01:46:03 PDT 2012


Isn't Helvetica one of the base fonts that is supposed to be available in all PDF readers?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#Standard_Type_1_Fonts_.28Standard_14_Fonts.29http://desktoppub.about.com/od/glossary/g/base14fonts.htm
> > Examining the PDF itself, the fonts are not embedded;
> > viz.
> > 
> > %PDF-1.4^M
> > 2 0 obj <</Subtype /Type1 /Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding /BaseFont /Helvetica-
> Bold /Type /Font >> endobj^M
> > 3 0 obj <</Subtype /Type1 /Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding /BaseFont /Helvetica 
> /Type /Font >> endobj^M
> 
> > Adobe software apparently substitutes for the missing fonts,
> > but other software is not obliged to do this.

 		 	   		  
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