question on PDFs and needing a font loaded
Okay, maybe one of you IT people can explain this to me. With my job, I review contracts all the time and sometimes they come in PDF format. I am running Linux (specifically Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and use Firefox and Open Office. Sometimes I will get a PDF contract and when I open it up, most of the pages are blank. There will be some words on the page but most of it is just blank. My system tells me that there are fonts on the page that are not loaded so they can not show them. Isn't a PDF just an image? Why would my system need to have a font loaded to recognize an image when it is not actually typed letters?
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