On 05/20/2020 09:08 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 08:12:54PM -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> I think so too, that that is why I'm puzzled. >> Here is the form. > > Thanks for attaching the document, but it's huge ! I placed the emphasis > on > _minimal_ for a reason. ;-) > > Anyway, I'm able to replicate this, and I'd say it's likely to be a bug > in > Evince. Using GhostScript [1] to retroactively embed all the fonts > allows > Evince to render it without issue, pointing to an issue causing it to > avoid > loading external fonts. > > gs \ > -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 \ > -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen \ > -dCompressFonts=true \ > -dSubsetFonts=true \ > -dNOPAUSE \ > -dBATCH \ > -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \ > -sOutputFile=form-fixed.pdf \ > -c ".setpdfwrite <</NeverEmbed [ ]>> setdistillerparams" \ > -f form-original.pdf > > Although, having to do this on all your documents is obviously suboptimal, > and > also can make them quite a bit larger. Strangely, after testing on my > Manjaro > QEMU virtual machine, everything behaves correctly; the P.D.F.\ without > embedded > Dingbats renders correctly. > > [Solution] > > Evince is substituting ZapfDingbats with another font. On my system, this > is
> Liberation Sans Regular (Properties->Fonts->ZapfDingbats). This means > that > Evince cannot find the font "ZapfDingbats". To rectify this, download "ITC > Zapf > Dingbats" from [2] and unzip the two files into ~/.local/share/fonts > or > /usr/share/fonts. > > However, "ZapfDingbats" and "ITC Zapf Dingbats" have a slight name > mismatch, > which will still cause Evince to substitute it with an unsuitable > alternative. > Fontconfig allows you to alias fonts using its standard XML > configuration > method. Add the following to /etc/fonts/local.conf (create the file if it > does > not exist): > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> > <fontconfig> > <alias> > <family>ZapfDingbats</family> > <prefer><family>ITC Zapf Dingbats</family></prefer> > <default><family>fixed</family></default> > </alias> > </fontconfig> > > This will cause Evince to load the document correctly. You might have to > run > `fc-cache` after you've created the <alias> stanza, although I doubt it. > > Does this fix it ? > > [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/2981689 > [2] https://freefontsfamily.com/download/itc-zapf-dingbats > Hi Ashley, Thank you for the hint. I unzip the "ITC Zapf Dingbats.zip" to /usr/share/fonts/itc-zapf-dingbats and created as you suggested: /etc/fonts/local.conf with the content above and the "check-mark" is showing perfectly. Thank you for the solution! Regards, Thelma
