[tlug] viewing Japanese PDF files

[Peter Evans <peter@example.com>]

Warning: dumb-ass question.

I've recently had to comment on a plan by my part of my institution for 
quasi-publishing PDF files on its website.

I attempted to view the sample already tentatively posted (via the 
default fashion provided by KDE 3.1.1, SuSE 8.2) and virtually all of 
the text was missing. GV does let me view the content (but in an 
unpalatably ugly form); neither KGhostView nor Acrobat Reader displays it.

A Linux-non-using acquaintance says that Acrobat-Reader-for-Linux can't 
display Japanese text. (Of course, it will display Japanese or anything 
else pee-dee-effed as graphics.) I find this hard to believe, because GV 
(presumably working in tandem with other software) does allow it, and 
because (to the limit of my patience in searching) Adobe's website seems 
not to mention this.

Am I, as so often, missing something very obvious?

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Peter Evans, Linux ignoramus
peter@example.com