Re: fonts used by evince
On Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 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.
It is not likely to. How does pi turn out? And all the other Greek
letters used in maths?
> 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
>
> I would aim for "looks as it's supposed to look" (no matter whether
> DejaVu looks better or not).
May I suggest this? Move all the font directories in /usr/share/fonts
out of the way. It's probably best to do this in a virtual terminal. To
get anything readable back in X the X11 and opentype directories will
have to put back. Now restore /usr/share/type1/gsfonts and see what your
pdf looks like with xpdf and evince. mupdf doesn't use the fonts in
/usr/share/fonts so it will tell you nothing.
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