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From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Strange Font problem
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:37:42 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100617183742.GA6421@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C1886A7.6090400@wxs.nl>

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:09:11AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 16-6-2010 3:19, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 02:32:48AM +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>since one of the last betas (I guess two weeks ago), a strange problem
> >>appears in my current document. The first ~10 page are completely fine (i.e.
> >>as usual) but the following ~20 pages have some kind of a font problem. The
> >>font looks bolder/grainy when zooming out in Acrobat and also the scrolling
> >>is pretty slow. After these pages, it's fine again. I don't see any specific
> >>trigger, there's nothing "special" on these pages.
> >
> >Can you check with other PDF readers, it looks like a reader issue to
> >me. I've got some strange color issues with ConTeXt generated PDFs and
> >Adobe's reader in the past, namely any page with images would have the
> >colors brighter than other pages, since the print was fine (and I don't
> >use Adobe's for screen reading, I didn't bother). Yours might be
> >something similar.
> 
> see taco's answer ... what i normally do then is put some invisible
> transparent color on the first page of the document as this will
> trigger the other color machinery in acrobat

Interesting, I've to try this once I'm back working on next edition of
that book(let).

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-17 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-16  0:32 Andreas Schneider
2010-06-16  1:19 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-06-16  5:46   ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-06-16  5:49     ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-06-16 12:39       ` Andreas Schneider
2010-06-16  8:09   ` Hans Hagen
2010-06-17 18:37     ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2010-06-16 12:27   ` Andreas Schneider

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