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Jaakko Seppälä
Asked: 2012-10-20 12:30:37 +0800 CST

Evince shows font in too big style when opening pdf from Internet

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When choose some PDF document to be opened by Evince from a WWW-site, it shows the document with font size 300%. How can I change it to show the document by font size 100 %? The same issue occurs both in Firefox and in Chrome. I'm using Ubuntu 12.10, Evince 3.6.0, Firefox 16.0.1 and Chrome 22.0.1229.94.

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  1. Best Answer

    I think the problem might be that you're missing a font.

    In some PDFs, not all fonts are embedded, which means that you have to have these fonts installed on your system. If you don't have them installed, the PDF readers use a substitution font, which looks right most of the time, but not always. Looking at your provided sample, you can see in the emb column which fonts are embedded:

    user@host ~ $ pdffonts 1210.3720.pdf
name                                 type              encoding         emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
ZVTVKO+CMR9                          Type 1C           WinAnsi          yes yes no      65  0
TNKPNO+CMTI10                        Type 1C           Custom           yes yes no      63  0
EUBKWD+CMMI6                         Type 1C           Custom           yes yes yes     50  0
Times-Roman                          Type 1            Standard         no  no  no      27  0
WUHOVD+MSBM10                        Type 1C           Custom           yes yes yes     46  0
TXXCOH+CMMI8                         Type 1C           Custom           yes yes yes     44  0
WENRPZ+CMSY10                        Type 1C           Custom           yes yes yes     42  0
UKDDMC+CMR8                          Type 1C           Custom           yes yes no      40  0
DZKPHZ+CMMI12                        Type 1C           Custom           yes yes yes     38  0
QGXROH+CMR12                         Type 1C           Custom           yes yes no      36  0
WFOOEY+CMMI10                        Type 1C           WinAnsi          yes yes no      34  0
JFGGLS+CMCSC10                       Type 1C           WinAnsi          yes yes no      32  0
JNCOFM+CMR10                         Type 1C           Custom           yes yes no      30  0
BNDGFL+CMBX12                        Type 1C           Custom           yes yes no      28  0
THENUM+CMSS12                        Type 1C           Custom           yes yes no      84  0
BQAVRP+CMEX10                        Type 1C           Custom           yes yes no      98  0
DCOWCX+CMTI12                        Type 1C           Custom           yes yes no     110  0
SFKKYE+CMSY8                         Type 1C           Custom           yes yes yes    107  0
SDEAPX+rsfs10                        Type 1C           WinAnsi          yes yes no     100  0
AGBIOF+CMSY6                         Type 1C           Custom           yes yes yes    125  0
ONCRWT+MSAM10                        Type 1C           Custom           yes yes yes    117  0
GFZVVH+CMR6                          Type 1C           WinAnsi          yes yes no     257  0
CZBFJH+CMR7                          Type 1C           WinAnsi          yes yes no     322  0
BBIJMN+CMTT10                        Type 1C           WinAnsi          yes yes no     317  0
ZVTVKO+CMBX10                        Type 1C           WinAnsi          yes yes no     313  0

    As you can see "Times-Roman" isn't in the PDF and probably substituted with a wrong font.

    Things to try:

    • Open the terminal application and install the Windows fonts, which include Times New Roman:

      sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

    • Install another pdf reader, which may be substititung the font differently, e.g. muPdf

      sudo apt-get install mupdf

      Right click on the PDF and choose the program to open the file

    • Modify the original PDF: See this question on Stack Overflow
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