[softwarelist] Re: Bizarre behaviour with borders!

In article <2f2d484650.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Martin Wuerthner <public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <504645d388rhnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>           "Rob Hemmings (News)" <rhnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > When I print to a .pdf file using RComp's PDFMaker then the lines and
> > corners both print.  (That would be a good workaround except that then
> > one of the fonts I have used in the document is replaced by Homerton!)

> I doubt that the font is really replaced in the PDF. At a guess, you 
> are using !PDF to view the PDF file and !PDF is not very good at 
> embedded fonts. Actually, it shows hardly any embedded fonts at all, 
> but the one rather uncommon type it does cope with happens to be the 
> one used by the Acorn printer driver most of the time.

> If the resulting PDF file is viewed using a more font literate PDF 
> viewer (e.g., Adobe Reader, RiScript or GView/Ghostscript), then you 
> will probably see the correct font.

> Martin


Thanks Martin - you are absolutely correct.  I had forgotten that !PDF
had that weakness.  I now have a work around for the problem.  Thanks
very much indeed.

Rob

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