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Off topic but why is the document written with painful amount of tracking? (By tracking I mean in the typography sense, i.e. letter spacing, not that the document is tracking you.) It almost seems like they don't want people to actually read the document.


I suspect they're not embedding the correct font in the PDF, leading to strange spacing.


Indeed, it's using some font named GothamSSm which is not embedded and getting replaced by some random Sans font by your PDF viewer. What idiotic PDF generator doesn't automatically embed non-standard fonts? (apparently Powerpoint...)


That's kerning. Tracking is when you adjust the kerning equally to expand a word to fit a space.




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