https://pgadey.ca/tags/pdf/ Recent content in PDF on Parker Adey Hugo en-EN Fri, 22 May 2026 16:51:45 -0400 https://pgadey.ca/notes/missing-symbols-pdf/ Wed, 20 May 2026 10:27:26 -0400 https://pgadey.ca/notes/missing-symbols-pdf/ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20021202130520/http://viridiandesign.org/notes/1-25/Note%2000002.txt">Attention conservation notice</a>: This is a fix for a very niche problem. Unless your printer is eating certain character from your print job, you had best move on. The punchline is: <a href="#flatten-the-pdf">flatten the PDF</a>. <p>The printer at work, a Ricoh IM C6500, doesn&rsquo;t get along well with me. Sometimes, when printing a PDF it will garble the output and omit a lot of symbols. It drops math symbols and particular kernings, in particular ff. This makes it <code>di icult</code> to read papers.</p>