Letter spacing in CF8 PDFs

[Jordan_Roher]

Just upgraded to ColdFusion 8 and my PDF rendering has gone bonkers. I'm writing valid XHTML 1.0 Strict and doing a CSS block at the top of the document, but I can't get CF8's cfdocument to listen to the CSS letter-spacing attribute. I've tried negative and positive percent, pixels, em and inches, but nothing works. I've been to Rip's Domain, but his advice doesn't work. Does anyone have any secret sauce to share?

[Jordan_Roher]

I should probably mention that I'm running Ubuntu 32-bit.

[Jordan_Roher]

It seems Ubuntu was the culprit. I switched to Windows Server 2003 and my documents look correct now. But the letter-spacing still doesn't work. Filed it as a bug.

[apocalipsis19]

Jordan,

It TOTALLY has to do with Linux. You MUST install all the hot fixes for Ubuntu. I came across that situation a while ago. I installed all the fixes in Linux as well as in CF 8. Very important, the way the systems render the text and styles is different in platforms. Yeah I was as surprised as you may be. If the hot fixes don't work dig into font support for CF8 and Linux ubuntu. Fixing this problem requires some research. I wish I could dig into it and provide you with some of the links I discoveres but I am at work right now, so I gave you the hints, go for it brother!

[apocalipsis19]

Jordan,

Today is your lucky day! I just remembered the fonts that you must use to avoid this rendering problem: Linux Libertine fonts. Research that. It worked perfectly fine in my company!

[Jordan_Roher]

Looks promising.

Thanks, apocalipsis19.