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Let me say up front that this is not really a Paizo problem. I have found that many of the letter "A" within the pdf's i get are not displayed on screen. The lower case displays fine, but in the bold type of paragraph headings the "A"s are not displayed at all. I am running ubuntu 8.10 and have also been able to reproduce this on Fedora 9.
Is anyone else seeing this? I can live with it if i have to but would prefer to find a solution. I am posting here because the only docs i have seen the problem with are the Pathfinder society stuff.
Den
ct1 tt ck in bs lom can be a bit tricky to read sometimes.
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Let me say up front that this is not really a Paizo problem. I have found that many of the letter "A" within the pdf's i get are not displayed on screen. The lower case displays fine, but in the bold type of paragraph headings the "A"s are not displayed at all. I am running ubuntu 8.10 and have
also been able to reproduce this on Fedora 9.
Is anyone else seeing this? I can live with it if i have to but would prefer to find a solution. I am posting here because the only docs i have seen the problem with are the Pathfinder society stuff.Den
ct1 tt ck in bs lom can be a bit tricky to read sometimes.
I'm told that several Linux PDF viewers have already been updated to solve this problem.
Tht must be strnge to ply Pthfinder like tht...
Especilly if you re plying wizrd, pldin or ssssin...
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Yeah, I think this was brought up about 6 months ago in the website feedback forum... might want to look there for the versions people updated to, otherwise, just update to the most recent patch
I'm told that several Linux PDF viewers have already been updated to solve this problem.
Thanks Vic and Cpt. I was able to find a thread that pointed me a fix.I guess i must have only searched for the problem in the pathfinder society section so thus had not seen the answer.
The easiest fix is to get the adobe reader Ubuntu users will need to tell it to download the .deb package as the adobe download page will detect the wrong one by defaut.The .deb package installed easily. I went with Adobe9. I can't vouch for Adobe8 directly but it also probably works.
The pdf viewers that ship by default have an issue with one of their libraries that didn't get fixed until recently. It however is not yet considered stable enough to put into the main distribution via the software update. The Alpa version of Ubuntu is running the newest version of the library in question and no longer has this problem.
You need to have freetype 2.3.9-3 or later to have this work properly.
I am not feeling up to the task of compliling and installing this at the moment so adobe9 it is.