adobe reader font fix

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Thread: [SOLVED] Adobe Reader Font Fixed

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1. December 10th, 2008#1

   

   MrFSL 

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   [SOLVED] Adobe Reader Font Fixed

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I searched the forum and could not find an answer to this problem so I am posting it here. Hopefully it helps some people.

I use the adobe reader 8.1.3 package for pdf files:
Located Here

I have noticed that often I get errors saying that a certain font cannot be displayed. This happens frequently with Microsoft fonts like Arial,Bold or Arial,Narrow. In the reader these fonts come out as little black dots instead.

I simply could not find a fix here nor on the Adobe forums. After some hacking though I have a solution:

First install the msttcorefonts package (if you haven't already)

Code:

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

Next edit the the reader's startup file:

Code:

sudo gedit /opt/Adobe/Reader8/bin/acroread

And uncomment these two lines:

Code:

ACRO_ENABLE_FONT_CONFIG=1
export ACRO_ENABLE_FONT_CONFIG

Now reader acts as should be expected.