diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibPDF/Fonts/SimpleFont.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibPDF/Fonts/SimpleFont.cpp
index 4e05ec78ad..69c94f8c8a 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibPDF/Fonts/SimpleFont.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibPDF/Fonts/SimpleFont.cpp
@@ -52,11 +52,11 @@ PDFErrorOr<Gfx::FloatPoint> SimpleFont::draw_string(Gfx::Painter& painter, Gfx::
         // and use the default width for the given font otherwise.
         float glyph_width;
         if (auto width = m_widths.get(char_code); width.has_value())
-            glyph_width = font_size * width.value() / 1000.0f;
+            glyph_width = font_size * width.value() * m_font_matrix.x_scale();
         else if (auto width = get_glyph_width(char_code); width.has_value())
             glyph_width = width.value();
         else
-            glyph_width = m_missing_width;
+            glyph_width = m_missing_width; // FIXME: times m_font_matrix.x_scale() probably?
 
         TRY(draw_glyph(painter, glyph_position, glyph_width, char_code, paint_color));
 
diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibPDF/Fonts/SimpleFont.h b/Userland/Libraries/LibPDF/Fonts/SimpleFont.h
index 783fb1e1a2..47673d7671 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibPDF/Fonts/SimpleFont.h
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibPDF/Fonts/SimpleFont.h
@@ -22,11 +22,18 @@ protected:
     RefPtr<Encoding>& encoding() { return m_encoding; }
     RefPtr<Encoding> const& encoding() const { return m_encoding; }
 
+    Gfx::AffineTransform& font_matrix() { return m_font_matrix; }
+
 private:
     RefPtr<Encoding> m_encoding;
     RefPtr<StreamObject> m_to_unicode;
     HashMap<u8, u16> m_widths;
     u16 m_missing_width { 0 };
+
+    // "For all font types except Type 3, the units of glyph space are one-thousandth of a unit of text space;
+    // for a Type 3 font, the transformation from glyph space to text space is defined by a font matrix specified
+    // in an explicit FontMatrix entry in the font."
+    Gfx::AffineTransform m_font_matrix { 1.0f / 1000.0f, 0, 0, 1.0f / 1000.0f, 0, 0 };
 };
 
 }