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Re: fonts used by evince



On Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 20:59:23 +0000, Camaleón wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:14:09 +0100, Brian wrote:
>
>> As I have described I have no problem seeing the pdf as its maker
>> intended.
 
> Neither I have it in wheezy but in lenny the two sample PDF files render 
> with the wrong character. In both systems I have "symbol.ttf" installed 
> under the same path ("/usr/local/share/fonts/*.ttf").

The only symbol.ttf I can find in Wheezy at

   http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

is in the libwine package. Is that the correct file? I hope so, because
I went to a lot of trouble to download and install it. :)

Bad news: libwine has symbol.ttf in /usr/share/wine/fonts and the OP's
pdf displays mu, as it should.

Good news (maybe): moving symbol.ttf to /usr/share/fonts reproduces the
OP's problem - mu is displayed as a proportionality symbol.

I may as well throw in something I came across earlier today:

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700729

But this is a different distribution and, in any case, the location of
the Debian wine fonts doesn't affect the pdf. The OP needs to move files
out of the fonts directory to isolate the cause. Either that or, as a
way of working round it, use mupdf, which has the fonts compliled into
the binary.


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