Re: "Check mark" symbol missing using 'evince'?

2022-04-07 Thread RVP
On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, John D. Baker wrote: Thereafter, the sample document does show a "check mark" glyph in the check box fields, but it is rather small. Looks like evince is using character glyphs to render these text elements instead of drawing them itself. evince on Linux show the same beha

Re: "Check mark" symbol missing using 'evince'?

2022-04-06 Thread RVP
On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, John D. Baker wrote: Since the two "No Name" fonts in the example document get substituted with "Bitstream Vera Sans" and one of those fonts claims have an encoding of "ZapfDingbats", it would seem that 'fontconfig' is substituting the wrong font, although I don't know what t

Re: "Check mark" symbol missing using 'evince'?

2022-04-06 Thread Rhialto
On Wed 06 Apr 2022 at 08:03:55 -0500, John D. Baker wrote: > Assuming the glyph is "ZaDb 1117 0 R", I don't know how to interpret > that. Is that character code decimal, hexadecimal, octal? The number is decimal, but "1117 0 R" is a reference to node number 1117 of the object tree. Think of the R

Re: "Check mark" symbol missing using 'evince'?

2022-04-05 Thread Thomas Klausner
On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 06:50:46PM -0500, John D. Baker wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, Thomas Klausner wrote: > > > Please give wip/evince a try - it contains the latest 42.1 release. > > Same behavior. "Checkbox" items show a thin-outline box instead of a > check mark or other appropriate glyph.

Re: "Check mark" symbol missing using 'evince'?

2022-04-05 Thread RVP
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, John D. Baker wrote: Same behavior. "Checkbox" items show a thin-outline box instead of a check mark or other appropriate glyph. Does: `xfd -fn/-fa font_name' display the correct (or any) glyph at the symbol code-point? -RVP

Re: "Check mark" symbol missing using 'evince'?

2022-04-05 Thread Thomas Klausner
On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:43:04PM -0500, John D. Baker wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Thomas Klausner wrote: > > > I think you might find more evince expertise if you talk to evince > > upstream about this. > > There are a number of open bugs with "checkbox" issues. The following > most closely d

Re: "Check mark" symbol missing using 'evince'?

2022-04-05 Thread Thomas Klausner
On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 09:27:17AM -0500, John D. Baker wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, John D. Baker wrote: > > > I also have a report that 'mupdf-gl' operates correctly. I will be > > trying it once my pkg build host finishes its current task. From what > > I can see, it doesn't cause any additio

Re: "Check mark" symbol missing using 'evince'?

2022-04-05 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 at 16:01, John D. Baker wrote: > > I routinely use 'evince' when I need to manipulate PDFs with fillable > fields. When I first started using it, it seemed the "check-mark" > glyph was missing and the result was a thin-outline box inside the > area the check-mark should appear.