Re: [gentoo-user] evince doesn't display check-mark symbol

[Ashley Dixon]

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 05:31:32PM -0600, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
> I have a pdf file that has a check-mark symbol in it.  On one computer the
> evince is display the "check-mark".  On my other computer the check mark is
> displayed as a "square box"
>
> Both computer run save ver. of evince.
>
> pdffonts Km_Ysa.pdf (shows same output on both computers):
>
> name                  type     encoding     emb sub uni object ID
> --------------------- -------- ------------ --- --- --- ---------
> ZOTMNE+Verdana,Bold   TrueType WinAnsi      yes yes no      23  0
> SEJYXC+Verdana        TrueType WinAnsi      yes yes no      24  0
> WUNKEP+Verdana,Italic TrueType WinAnsi      yes yes no      25  0
> Verdana,Bold          TrueType WinAnsi      yes no  no       2  0
> Verdana               TrueType WinAnsi      yes no  no       4  0
> ZapfDingbats          Type 1   ZapfDingbats no  no  no      60  0
>
> It would seems I'm missing "ZapfDingbats" but both computers show same result
> "pdffonts Km_Ysa.pdf" so why one display check-mark symbol correctly and the
> other one is missing the symbol, I only see a "square box"

The `emb` column just indicates whether the font is embedded in the file.  If it
isn't, you should still be able to view it, provided you have the font installed
elsewhere; it's probably irrelevant in your case.

Anyway, do you know to which font the check-mark symbol belongs ? If you do, use
`fc-list` from FontConfig to check if you have the appropriate one installed. If
you don't, you will have  to  diff  the  `fc-list`  with  that  of  the  working
machine and narrow down the list of plausible contenders.

There shouldn't be that many.  I have all  Chinese  (Traditional)  and  Japanese
fonts installed and `fc-list : file | sed 's/: $//g'` only gives 83 lines.

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Ashley Dixon
suugaku.co.uk

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