Hello,
Like I said in a previous mail, I have still some issues with fonts in KOffice or other KDE applications, although things have improved enormously since about 12 months ago. Having said that I would like to offer you an example of a document that I produced (it's in dutch i'm afraid...) to illustrate my point.
1. I chose times new roman to avoid problems with people who would view this file afterwards -I think I embedded the font as well, but I'm not sure now. I prints on my printer exactly as it is in the pdf file on my system. (deskjet 500 - kghostview; on Acrobat (for linux) it looks lousy?) I think the font is to bold really. Strangely enough, on a windows pc that I have with a better printer Acrobat 6.0 shows the document as it should be and it prints very well too???
2. Kerning is hardly a problem anymore, compared to
earlier times, but it is still not perfect. If you
look at the last -italic- lines of the document, you
will see that in "Vlaamse Wushu" there are still some
kerning problems, also in "sportfederatie" further on
the sam line. Maybe this is linked to the fact that it
is italic? Maybe all this is KOffice related and not
general KDE?
http://www.taiji.be/Persbericht.pdf
The best way to make a PDF is to use the the fonts that come with AAR 3.x for Windows:
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/win/3.x/ar302.exe
and NOT embed them, make a PS, and then use ps2pdf to produce the PDF.
These fonts are:
COBO____.PFB HVBO____.PFB TII_____.PFB SY______.PFB COB_____.PFB HVB_____.PFB TIR_____.PFB ZD______.PFB COM_____.PFB HVO_____.PFB TIBI____.PFB COO_____.PFB HV______.PFB TIB_____.PFB
You can usually find them on the web to download.
You also need the AFMs from:
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/afmfiles/900-960/950/
Remember to convert the file names to all lower case before installing on Linux.
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