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On 05/20/2020 09:08 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote: |
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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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Hi Ashley, |
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Thank you for the hint. I unzip the "ITC Zapf Dingbats.zip" to |
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/usr/share/fonts/itc-zapf-dingbats |
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and created as you suggested: /etc/fonts/local.conf with the content |
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above and the "check-mark" is showing perfectly. |
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Thank you for the solution! |
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Regards, |
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Thelma |
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