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WebDirect PDFs & Font Rendering - Is PDFKit the answer?

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Not quite sure if this is the proper section in which to post this, but as it has to do with "printing" in WebDirect, here goes . . .

I'm working on moving our files from an old Mac machine to an Ubuntu server, which the IT guy thought would be best for the future.  I've already moved most of the easy files, but I'm hesistating on some of the files that have print layouts.  At first, I found that things weren't printing right because the Mac and Ubuntu don't have all the same fonts.  So I switched from using Helvetica in the old file to using Verdana, which exists on both systems.  However, the prints still don't look the same, so I did some more digging.  I found that it is probably because the PDF "engine" used to create the documents is different.  Looks like Mac uses PDFKit and Ubuntu uses CUPS (maybe?)

Here's the question - If I go through the hassle of trying to get PDFKit installed on Ubuntu, will it make PDFs from the new server look identical to those from the old server?

  • 2 months later...
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Actually, I think FMS must install/use it's own PDF rendering engine, whatever that may be, so messing with stuff at the OS level probably won't matter.

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