On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:52 pm, Hahnsson Henrik wrote:
The problem is that Acrobats on screen font display is sometimes (but not always) horrible. This is especially the case with files that I create using the print to PDF option (in kprint). Ghostview's display of these files is excellent.
YES they are sometimes ugly. But look at the files in Windoz-AcroReader, thay are as ugly there. Print them out and they are nice and sharp.
Something in the reader itself.
Thanks for the confirmation, I can accept that. I tried loading one of the bad documents (one I created using save to PDF) in windows. Acrobat crashed before loading the file. I've seen this before so I went ahead and started Acrobat (5.1) then dropped the file on it, sure enough ugly fonts (on screen). Is there something about the pdf files created by linux (I assume ghostscript is the actual prog creating the pdf file), that acrobat doesn't like? (ESP Ghostscript 7.05 (SuSE's version), SuSE 8.1, kde 3.1) A side note, as part of this project I decided to change my file associations so that kGhostview was the default viewer for pdf files. I changed the associations for application/pdf, application/x-pdf, text/pdf and text/x-pdf. Once I had done this kghostscript complained that it could only open .ps and .eps files, that .pdf was an unsupported format (the same file it had opened not 5 minutes earlier. I now remember seeing this happen before. I changed all of the file associations except application/pdf back to their original state and all works as it should. Kghostscript opens the file just fine. Curious Curious, -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!