Readability of the font in Adobe Acrobat about eb-garamond HOT 5 CLOSED

That’s ugly indeed. I can’t reproduce this here on my machine (Linux). Here the PDF looks fine. Could you look at the specimen from the repository and report if it shows the same problem?
Unfortunately I won’t be able to do deeper testing this and next week.

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Yes, the specimen also shows bouncing of some letters (magnification set to 200%) although not as much as in output from Office - I suspect that the positions of some of the letters should be more precisely defined.

http://postimage.org/image/f3xlx0waj/full/

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In my humble opinion, Georgd, you have done nothing wrong. It is Adobe Reader (the evil, the pdf reader well-known for its problems, that renderizes wrongly the fonts)

I downloaded the original pdf doc1.pdf that the windowsian complainer, trusting too much in Adobe company, like every windowsian, putted on a privacy invasive e-mail-buster filehosting

-http://ge.tt/6IwRl4O/v/0

As expected, it appeared perfeclty into EPDFVIEW, MUPDF viewer, FOXIT

then i mounted the sfs of Adobe reader 7.0

and this is is the screenshot at 100% zoom

• http://ge.tt/6IwRl4O/v/1

then a closer view at 200%

• http://ge.tt/6IwRl4O/v/2

that shows how the fonts is rightly formed, and that confirms that the problem is with the bad rendering on screen at 100% zoom of ADOBE

as counterproof, I converted in curves the fonts (in order to bypass the rendering issues by the part of adobe reader)

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOCACHE -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=converted.ps doc1.pdf
ps2pdf -g5950x8420 *.ps converted-in-curves.pdf

and this is the output pdf file:

• http://ge.tt/6IwRl4O/v/4

that cures the Adobe reader problems with hinting

• http://ge.tt/6IwRl4O/v/3

I'm happy with fonts and I need to donate more and more for your hard work

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I zoomed (to max 6400%) two fonts side by side in Adobe Reader. EB Garamond is on the left side and Adobe Garamond Pro is on the right both are sized 12pt although EB Garamond is larger (in upper and lower part which IMO causes some letters like a, o, e t, c, s etc.to be rendered slightly larger - try to zoom enclosed picture to see difference on the top and bottom of the font).

http://ge.tt/8JVHMFO/v/0

Also here are two PDF files first EB Garamond 12pt
http://ge.tt/8JVHMFO/v/1

and the second Adobe Garamond Pro 12pt
http://ge.tt/8JVHMFO/v/2

Keep up the great work.

from eb-garamond.

Doesn’t seem to be my bug, I can’t reproduce it neither on Linux nor on Windows, neither with Xe/LuaLaTeX, nor with Adobe Acrobat. Adobe Reader renders fine on both platforms (for the other evil one, somebody else has to test).

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