[acroread7] Cannot find or create the font 'Arial'

[Lowell Gilbert]

"T. H. Lin" <easy.lin at gmail.com> writes:

> FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #2
> ports tree up-to-date
> 
> Recently I do the portupgrade,
> and suddenly when I excute acroread7 to view some pdf documents(in german),
> I got the error message:
>     Cannot find or create the font 'Arial', Some characters may not display
> or print correctly.
> 
> then I can read any character in the document.
> 
> but other documents are ok.
> 
> 
> is the problem about fontconfig?

No.  Try installing the "webfonts" port.  It includes a decent Arial
font, I believe.