Re: Displaying pdf files

Hi,

>"Julian Ziersch" <news@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:1cv171dqdfj7dps4edckes9lo23gk7s5nl@xxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> WPViewPDf (Currently V1.12.5) has recently been further optimized.
>> It does not directly compete with the official PDF Reader since it
>> does not render Type1 fonts - but the PDF display should be readable
>> or better.
>
>What is a Type 1 font?

That font uses character (glyph) description written in encoded
postscript language. (PS is more complicated than usual PDF text and
graphics) It also uses a certain technique to improve the display of
the text (hinting). Some applications embed this kind of character
description instead of the original font - WPViewPDF can now handle
this if the original names are still used and the font information
includes enough data and of course, a TTF font with a matching name is
installed.
But unfortunately in some PDF files the names were stripped (converted
to "T0000xxx" -then there is no obvious way to find a substitution
font. This seems to happen when PS files are converted to PDF.

Regards,

Julian Ziersch
WPCubed GmbH
http://www.wptools.de
.

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