Helvetica in Evince

I am looking at some horrid looking pdfs using evince... The problem is non-embedded fonts and helvetica is the number on culprit.
I have xorg-fonts-75/100dpi installed which I think Helvetica is in but this does not help. Any ideas?
Last edited by Allan (2007-08-26 04:27:11)

I just downloaded acroread (that is massive!) and it displays the document properly. So it seems that this is just an evince problem
Good example:
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releas … oksize.pdf
If any one has this looking good in evince I would like the fix... dealing with acroread and it plugin that crashes firefox more often than not will be annoying!

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