Re: Horizontal bracket trouble

Daren Scot Wilson <[email protected]> Tue, 8 Aug 2017 23:51:32 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.type-setting.lout
Message-ID <[email protected]>
So maybe my PDFs are fine but I just can't see so?

I'll email the PDF to myself at work where I can try it on a different 
OS and viewer.

- Daren

On 08/07/2017 04:18 AM, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 03:43:38 -0700, Daren Scot Wilson wrote:
>
>> But ps2pdf, I'm not so impressed by.  In several places I use a horizontal
>> curly bracket to indicate a section of an expression. It looks good when
>> viewed in the Postscript file produced by Lout.  But when I make a PDF by
>> running ps2pdf, it's transformed into boxes of the type for when a glyph
>> can't be found.   This is on an Arch Linux machine with plenty of RAM, fast
>> CPU, etc.
> [...]
>> This is likely a problem in ps2pdf, not Lout, but maybe experienced Louters
>> (?) have seen something like this before, involving turning something 90
>> degrees.   Does anyone know of a workaround?
> Works for me here on Ubuntu 16.04
>
> evince tells me that there are embedded subsets of Times-*, but that
> Symbol is not embedded, substituted with $free_alternative from
> /usr/share
>
> Symbol is one of the 14 standard Adobe fonts, so most likely your pdf
> viewer installation is missing somthing.
>
> -uwe
>


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