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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-distill-prob.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-distill-prob.html index c5f3d90571e..00b727d0c05 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-distill-prob.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-distill-prob.html @@ -2,27 +2,27 @@ <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label distill-prob</title> </head><body> <h3>Characters missing from PDF output</h3> -<p/>If you’re using <i>Acrobat</i> <i>Distiller</i> to create your +<p/>If you’re using <i>Acrobat</i> <i>Distiller</i> to create your PDF output, you may find characters missing. This may manifest itself as messed-up maths equations (missing -“-” signs, for example), or bits missing +“-” signs, for example), or bits missing from large symbols. Early versions of <i>Distiller</i> used to -ignore character positions 0–31 and 128–159 of every font: Adobe’s +ignore character positions 0–31 and 128–159 of every font: Adobe’s fonts never use such positions, so why should <i>Distiller</i>? -<p/>Well, the answer to this question is “because Adobe don’t produce all -the world’s fonts” — fonts like <i>Computer</i> +<p/>Well, the answer to this question is “because Adobe don’t produce all +the world’s fonts” — fonts like <i>Computer</i> <i>Modern</i> were around before Adobe came on the scene, and -<em>they</em> use positions 0–31. Adobe don’t react to complaints like +<em>they</em> use positions 0–31. Adobe don’t react to complaints like that in the previous sentence, but they do release new versions of their programs; and <i>Distiller</i>, since at least version 4.0, <em>has</em> recognised the font positions it used to shun. <p/>Meanwhile, TeX users with old versions of <i>Distiller</i> need to deal with their fonts. <i>Dvips</i> comes to our aid: the -switch <code>-G1</code> (“remap characters”), which moves the offending +switch <code>-G1</code> (“remap characters”), which moves the offending characters out of the way. The PDF configuration file (<code>-Ppdf</code>), recommended -in “<a href="FAQ-fuzzy-type3.html">the wrong type of fonts</a>”, +in “<a href="FAQ-fuzzy-type3.html">the wrong type of fonts</a>”, includes the switch. <p/>The switch is not without its problems; pre-2003 versions of <i>dvips</i> will apply it to Adobe fonts as well, causing |