Ubuntu's not GNU/Linux?

[Matthias-Christian Ott]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 01:28:32PM +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Matthias-Christian Ott <ott at mirix.org> writes:
> > Despite this, I've never found a PDF document that didn't work with
> > xpdf or evince.
> 
> http://www.emesystems.com/pdfs/topboard.pdf
> 
> has really ugly fonts in xpdf/evince/gv/mupdf. Do you regard this as a
> PDF document?

Yes. I also saw older versions of TeX that produced text with totally
broken kerning. But you could still read it and it was TeX's fault, not
the fault of the PDF reader.

> As far as I understand it is not a valid PDF document since it uses
> fonts that it does not embbed. However, neither of those programs
> shows any warning to user about this so they conclude that
> xpdf/evince/gv/mupdf are just broken.

Fill out a bug report then. I also find this useful.

Regards,
Matthias-Christian