Adobe Acrobat and its font non handling

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Or, more succinctly, acroread since I have no idea if this is the same 
on Windows.

I have a PDF. Acroread tries to load and then bitches that it doesn't 
have the right font. Not a particularly exotic font - just Times New 
Roman. 

I *know* I have TNR installed somewhere because The Gimp and Star Office 
and Firefox can use them but we shall ignore that.

In fact we better ignore that because there's no way to tell Acrobat 
"try looking here as well".

Now, I know the PDF might not render exactly as was designed and since 
PDF is a print layout format I can see why that's more important than in 
HTML but, you know, just this one time I'm willing to let you substitute 
Helvetica or Garamond or Arial because, crazy kook that I am, actually 
care about the content rather than the presentation. 

I know, I know. Shun me! I am an aesthetic pariah.

Will it let me do this. No. It displays square boxes for every character 
instead. 

Ghostview, btw, handled it with aplomb. 

• Adobe Acrobat and its font non handling Simon Wistow 17:24 on 26 May 2006
  • Re: Adobe Acrobat and its font non handling Bill Page 18:36 on 26 May 2006

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