Acroread: Cannot find or create the font 'Arial'.

[volkmar]

For some pdf documents, when opened with acroread-7.0.9-r1 I get the following popup:

Cannot find or create the font 'Arial'. Some characters may not display or
print correctly.

And then the document of course is unreadable. As Adobe's bug description is for an older version and not for Linux it wouldn't help me.
Maybe somebody here can help me solving this bug?

[fangorn]

emerge -pv corefonts

Then in /etc/X11/xorg.conf add the directory with the corefonts to the fonts section.
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[volkmar]

Thanks for your attention.

I have always had media-fonts/corefonts emerged and in the "Files" Section of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Should there be a separate "Fonts" section?

The problem still remains. Any idea what else I could do to get it solved?

[wynn]

In your xorg.conf you should have

[volkmar]

What I am having in /etc/X11/xorg.conf is

[wynn]

Perhaps it's a RTFM type problem

I've gone into Help / Adobe Reader Help F1 / Index / Fonts and found something that may be useful

[volkmar]

Thanks for reminding me of the Acroread help file. From the document's properties I have got some more information regarding the fonts used there.

[wynn]

It's probably a Microsoft encoding and the PDF has been created by a Microsoft app. From /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/encodings.dir

[anz]

I 've searched a little bit (because of the same arial-font-in-acreoread-error) and found a similar problem with Adobe Acrobat on windows:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=332372&sliceId=2
... but I also have still no idea ...
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