[SOLVED] Really bad fonts

[gammonGo]

Hi. I have a relatively new (since January) system that I built myself, despite not really knowing what I'm doing. It's working pretty well, except that the fonts in PDF files are horrible. I mean really bad, like I get equal signs where only one of the lines is even visible (that is, it looks like a minus sign). What I want to know is if this is because I went with a low-end graphics card, an NVIDIA GeForce GT 710, or something else and what can I do about it?

 

[rgd1101]

what the os? sound like you missing some font with the install

or could be the pdf where are they from?

 

[gammonGo]

Haha, I guess the OS would be helpful. It's Windows 10.
The PDFs are self-created at writelatex. You probably can't view this link: https://www.overleaf.com/project/5f5ed1e590ad640001b4661d
But here's a downloaded version of the same document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Erx3qQu_f32RfGp4OzfUvcyqzyQcJoZ_/view?usp=sharing

Also, I'm now noticing that when I download the PDF (second link), the fonts are considerably better than when I view the PDF in Chrome browser (the first link)

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Likely that the first link (can't view it) requires that the necessary font/s exist on your system, whereas the downloaded PDF includes the necessary font/s within.

 

[gammonGo]

Likely that the first link (can't view it) requires that the necessary font/s exist on your system, whereas the downloaded PDF includes the necessary font/s within.

Can you add a little detail? The first link is to a document that doesn't look good, in the browser. But the second link is the same document, downloaded.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

What detail do you need?

The first linked document is being viewed in your browser using the fonts resident on your system. Your system doesn't have the requested font/s on board and so substitutes with what is resident. Whereas the PDF has the required font/s embedded in the document itself (No, you cannot extract the font/s from the PDF and use them on your system).

 

[gammonGo]

That was the detail. Maybe this is no longer an Reader question., but how do I get the same (or equivalent) fonts resident on my system?