[PLUG] Fonts

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Thu Jun 28 20:54:17 UTC 2007


On 6/28/07, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I can't believe I can't find the answer, but an hour of searching
> Ubuntu forums and googling has revealed only out of date information.
>
> Problem: I need to print a PDF file created by a somewhat inept
> linguistics professor. He used a couple of old TTFs that contains the
> appropriate IPA characters, but not in the standard Unicode slots.
> Instead, the fonts come with a "template" which tells you how to type
> characters. For example, to type a schwa (hex 1DD, decimal 477) you
> type a capital E. He did all this in MS Word and exported to PDF with
> Acrobat 4.0. No matter what he does he cannot seem to get Acrobat to
> embed the fonts.
>
> The font license allows him to send me a copy of the fonts for printing
> purposes, and he did so. I put the fonts into ~/.fonts and they appear
> fine in OpenOffice.org and other similar programs. However, Adobe
> Reader 7.08 does not see them. In Adobe Reader you can (theoretically)
> type Ctrl-Shift-Y and it will tell Reader to use local fonts, but this
> does not work.
>
> Next, I tried Evince, Kpdf and Xpdf. They found the fonts and display
> them correctly on screen, but print the "capital letters" from the
> template. In other words, they are using the locally installed fonts
> for screen display, but failing to use locally installed fonts for
> printing. In the world of PDF, this is a serious no-no, but I can't
> wait for someone to fix the program code. For what it's worth, I think
> they are using Ghostscript for print output.
>
> What I want to try next is to install the fonts globally for all users,
> instead of just in my ~/.fonts folder. My hope is that doing so will
> make Adobe Reader see them. However, I cannot figure out what folder to
> put them in to make them globally available to everyone and every
> program. Does anyone know what folder I need? And is there anything
> else I need to do besides just dropping them into the folder? Does
> anyone have any further suggestions? Other PDF viewers? Other ways to
> print PDF files?
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John,
I might be wrong here but I think you might need to run fc-cache or
something else related to fontconfig

http://www.jeffmccoy.info/linux/config/fonts/fonts.php

Maybe that helps?



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