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11-08-2013

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Some PDF files contains definitions for all of the fonts included in the file; some don't and assume that the fonts used in the PDF file will be available on the system where the file is used. If the PDF file you have does not contain definitions for all of the fonts it is using and some of those fonts are not available on the Solaris box you're using to print the file, acroread will try to pick a similar font. Sometimes that produces output that look like the original file, sometimes it produces distorted text.

When fonts are unavailable, acroread usually pops up a window when opening that PDF file saying that one or more fonts weren't found and it lets you select a replacement for each missing font. If your version of acroread isn't doing that, you might check the Adobe website to see if a newer version of acroread is available for your system.

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xfig-pdf-viewer

XFIG-PDF-VIEWER(1)						Debian Users Manual						XFIG-PDF-VIEWER(1)

NAME

       xfig-pdf-viewer - view a PDF document using a PDF browser under X11

SYNOPSIS

       xfig-pdf-viewer file.pdf

DESCRIPTION

       xfig-pdf-viewer is a little shell script, which tries to find out which PDF viewers you have installed on your system and then starts them.
       xfig-pdf-viewer tries the following PDF viewers with descending priority:

       -  xpdf(1)

       -  kpdf(1)

       -  evince(1)

       -  acroread(1)

       -  gpdf(1)

       -  gv(1)

       -  gnome-gv(1)

       -  kghostview(1)

       -  ghostview(1)

       If the environment variable PDFVIEWER is set, this is used with highest priority.

ENVIRONMENT

       PDFVIEWER
	      you can define your favorite browser with this variable, it overrides the priority of the above mentioned viewers.

AUTHOR

       Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de>

SEE ALSO

       xpdf(1), kpdf(1), evince(1), acroread(1), gpdf(1), gv(1), gnome-gv(1), kghostview(1), ghostview(1)

Debian Project							     JULY 2006							XFIG-PDF-VIEWER(1)