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foggy

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Registered: 2012-01-25

Posts: 31

PDF rendering

Hello,

anyone knows how to improve PDF rendering of embedded fonts (Computer Modern for example)? Both gv and poppler-based viewers look very ugly compared to the rest of the font rendering on my system.

What I ideally would like to do is specify custom rendering settings for certain (embedded) fonts in an PDF or substitute embedded fonts with custom versions while rendering (not in the file itself). That possible?

Thanks!

Army

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Registered: 2007-12-07

Posts: 1,784

Re: PDF rendering

Did you try mupdf? Maybe you like its rendering more. If nothing else helps, acroread is what you are looking for.

foggy

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Registered: 2012-01-25

Posts: 31

Re: PDF rendering

Yeah I tried mupdf, its rendering is actually worse.
I tried different computers and distros btw, it all looks the same no matter where and what I used. So I figure, there's nothing wrong with my config, it's just (currently?) not possible to have a better rendering without using acroread. Maybe I'll stick to it, but it's a pain in the ass to "maintain" as it's 32-bit and only in AUR. Also not open. And, even worse, adobe.

Thanks anyway.

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: PDF rendering

This has been an annoyance for many years. AFAIK, there's no solution yet