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shane · 01-28-2009, 06:27 AM

I just got a new Booken, and had a problem with some viewing PDFs where the pages come up completely blank.
I did some searching on the forum for a fix, couldn't find one, but saw a thread mentioning that it might be related to fonts not being embedded in some PDFs.
So I checked the properties of a PDF that wasn't working, found which fonts were used (times new roman), then installed that font to the fonts folder of the cybook, and voila, problem solved. I hope this thread can be of use to those that have encountered a similar problem.
I also installed a bunch of fonts that are the the most widely used to try and avoid this problem in future, e.g.

arial, arial black, comic sans ms, courier new, helvetica, palatino, times new roman, trebuchet ms, tahoma.

These can be found in c:\windows\fonts folder. I installed the bold and italic versions.

01-28-2009, 06:27 AM	#1
shane Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 50 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Booken Cybook Gen3	Blank PDF with Booken - fixing I just got a new Booken, and had a problem with some viewing PDFs where the pages come up completely blank. I did some searching on the forum for a fix, couldn't find one, but saw a thread mentioning that it might be related to fonts not being embedded in some PDFs. So I checked the properties of a PDF that wasn't working, found which fonts were used (times new roman), then installed that font to the fonts folder of the cybook, and voila, problem solved. I hope this thread can be of use to those that have encountered a similar problem. I also installed a bunch of fonts that are the the most widely used to try and avoid this problem in future, e.g. arial, arial black, comic sans ms, courier new, helvetica, palatino, times new roman, trebuchet ms, tahoma. These can be found in c:\windows\fonts folder. I installed the bold and italic versions.