Re: Printing PDF's [possibly OT]

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On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 17:21:44 -0400
Edward <epp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 7/13/21 4:55 PM, E. Liddell wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:12:47 -0400
> > Edward <epp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> What is occurring, was that the layout of the PDF viewed with any of the
> >> aforementioned packages (except Vivaldi), wasn't 100% perfect. For
> >> example, spacing between the letters was uneven.  
> > That suggests a kerning problem, and possibly an unsuitable font
> > substitution.  You may want to dig into your distro's information on
> > fontconfig.  The command "fc-match Helvetica" can be used to see
> > what your system's substitute for Helvetica is.
> >
> > It's also possible the designer was a bonehead and adjusted the spacing
> > between letters without embedding the font.  That's . . . a little more
> > difficult to fix.
> 
> ~$ fc-match Helvetica
> texgyreheros-regular.otf: "TeX Gyre Heros" "Regular"
> 
> This is Debian 10.10 (amd64)

For me, it's arial.ttf, but that's because I have the old Microsoft
corefonts installed.

Okay, so if you type or copy and paste a bunch of text into an editor
program and change the font to "TeX Gyre Heros", does it look okay,
or does it display the same problems as your PDF?

E. Liddell
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