BIPM and Manuel: Odd display of math font in Acrobat Reader about bipm-si-brochure HOT 5 CLOSED

> We have run into some more basis problems with the printed output -- the
> formulas seem blurred. I suspect this is because the text in the SVG is
> converted to paths, rather than being represented as text. Are there any
> tricks to acheiving better print output? (I'll email you a sample
> document separately.)
Yes, this is due to the conversion of fonts -> line graphics. On my
printer the formulas look a little bit thicker, but not blurry, and
actually look better than the rest of the text :)

The main reason for this conversion is that Fonts are handled very
differently by different systems - MathML has many dependencies on
special fonts and characters, and JEuclid has a smart
character-replacement strategy. For this to work, however, it must be
ensured that the font information known to JEuclid is EXACTLY the same
that is available to the final renderer - and this is where a lot of the
existing systems break. Even different versions of the same font may
have different characters available on different systems or when loaded
through different methods (such as ps-fonts vs. ttf fonts). Especially
with the two-step conversion (-> svg, -> pdf), we have two intermediate
renderers which again have their own font processing and metrics
definition. The only way out of this inconsistency was to let Jeuclid
also render the fonts.