KPDF/KGhostview ugle fonts, acroread is fine?

telex4 · l33t Joined: 21 Sep 2002 Posts: 704 Location: Reading, UK

When I look at PDFs in KGhostview or KPDF, they look like this. I have them both set-up to antialias fonts, and they obviously aren't doing that.

When I look at the same PDF in Adobe's acroread, it looks like this.

How can I fix the KDE PDF viewers?

Gentoo User · Apprentice Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 164

I have the same problem but have not resolved it yet. I think that it is a common problem but still I haven't found any decent hint. It is very sad though. I used to run Mandrake and I didn't even think about anything related to ghostscript, xpdf, kpdf, lyx etc. because it was all perfectly tuned from the very beginning.

backjackII · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:39 am Post subject: bad kpdf rendering

Does anyone have a solution to this? This isn't a problem with a proprietory format because xpdf and gv work fine and render the PDFs well. It's just kpdf which messes up on certain pdfs.