On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:06:35 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: > On 11.06.2012 18:45, Camaleón wrote:
>> Okay, I finally figured out what was the problem: it's not the >> ZapfDingbats font but Symbol that makes a difference. >> >> When I add this chunk of text into my "~/.fonts.conf" file, the PDF is >> rendered correctly: >> >> <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> >> <fontconfig> <alias binding="same"> <family>Symbol</family> >> <prefer><family>DejaVu Serif</family></prefer> </alias> </fontconfig> >> >> "DejaVu Serif" font can be replaced by another one. >> >> > Indeed, I can confirm that. > > DejaVu Serif however doesn't look like symbol. Does anyone know which > font is used in the repair suggested by Brian: > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10277418/the-pdf-viewer-evince-on-linux-can-not-display-some-math-symbols-correctly The font is Symbol and the PDF mentioned there exposes the same problem as yours. Obviuosly, embedding the font bypasses the issue. It seems to me that the Symbol font itself has some sort of problem: when it is referenced (linked) it's badly rendered, when embedded is named as SymbolMT... Mmm... These are my available symbols fonts: sm01@stt008:~$ locate fonts | grep -i symbol /usr/local/share/fonts/symbol.ttf /usr/share/cups/fonts/Symbol /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/adobe-symbol.enc.gz /usr/share/xulrunner-1.9/res/fonts/mathfontStandardSymbolsL.properties I hope the system is using "symbol.ttf" as the default but I can't tell. > I would aim for "looks as it's supposed to look" (no matter whether > DejaVu looks better or not). In brief, that you want a real Symbol and not imitations nor substitutes ;-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jr5bib$7p7$1...@dough.gmane.org
