GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 131734
gnomepdf uses sans-serif font
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
gpdf version 0.111 Gnomepdf seems to use a sans-serif font on this system, which looks pretty ugly and unreadable. In addition, the spacing between the letters seems pretty unregular, which doesn't help the readability. And finally, many characters are displayed as squares, mostly ligatures it seems, but also equations. (this is a pdf document generated from a latex source; I don't know how exactly it was generated)
ah, it looks like pdflatex was used to generate this pdf acroread displays the pdf just fine
When running configure in gpdf: make sure it says: Checking whether gnome-print has sane private headers... yes Otherwise it won't try to use embedded font files and display everything using sans, serif, and mono. However, it'll use the spacing of the original font. If the metrics of that font differ from sans, it'll look as you described. If gpdf can use font-embedding, most squares will go away. The development version (gpdf 0.12x for gnome 2.5) has more improvements wrt. to ligatures and equations, though there are still problems. Marking as duplicate of one such equation rendering bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130239 ***
> When running configure in gpdf: make sure it says: I was using the version shipped in debian, so that's a bit hard to do... but thanks for your tip, maybe I'll try compiling gpdf myself.