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On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 08:12:54PM -0600, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> I think so too, that that is why I'm puzzled. |
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> Here is the form. |
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Thanks for attaching the document, but it's huge ! I placed the emphasis on |
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_minimal_ for a reason. ;-) |
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Anyway, I'm able to replicate this, and I'd say it's likely to be a bug in |
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Evince. Using GhostScript [1] to retroactively embed all the fonts allows |
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Evince to render it without issue, pointing to an issue causing it to avoid |
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loading external fonts. |
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gs \ |
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-dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 \ |
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-dPDFSETTINGS=/screen \ |
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-dCompressFonts=true \ |
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-dSubsetFonts=true \ |
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-dNOPAUSE \ |
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-dBATCH \ |
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-sDEVICE=pdfwrite \ |
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-sOutputFile=form-fixed.pdf \ |
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-c ".setpdfwrite <</NeverEmbed [ ]>> setdistillerparams" \ |
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-f form-original.pdf |
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Although, having to do this on all your documents is obviously suboptimal, and |
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also can make them quite a bit larger. Strangely, after testing on my Manjaro |
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QEMU virtual machine, everything behaves correctly; the P.D.F.\ without embedded |
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Dingbats renders correctly. |
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[Solution] |
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Evince is substituting ZapfDingbats with another font. On my system, this is |
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Liberation Sans Regular (Properties->Fonts->ZapfDingbats). This means that |
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Evince cannot find the font "ZapfDingbats". To rectify this, download "ITC Zapf |
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Dingbats" from [2] and unzip the two files into ~/.local/share/fonts or |
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/usr/share/fonts. |
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However, "ZapfDingbats" and "ITC Zapf Dingbats" have a slight name mismatch, |
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which will still cause Evince to substitute it with an unsuitable alternative. |
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Fontconfig allows you to alias fonts using its standard XML configuration |
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method. Add the following to /etc/fonts/local.conf (create the file if it does |
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not exist): |
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<?xml version="1.0"?> |
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<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> |
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<fontconfig> |
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<alias> |
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<family>ZapfDingbats</family> |
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<prefer><family>ITC Zapf Dingbats</family></prefer> |
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<default><family>fixed</family></default> |
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</alias> |
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</fontconfig> |
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This will cause Evince to load the document correctly. You might have to run |
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`fc-cache` after you've created the <alias> stanza, although I doubt it. |
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Does this fix it ? |
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[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/2981689 |
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[2] https://freefontsfamily.com/download/itc-zapf-dingbats |
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