On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:10:59 +0100, Brian wrote:
> 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. :)
I hope you did not install "libwine" just to test this (you can download
the .deb file and grabb only the required file).
I'm using the original Windows TrueType fonts (what I always do is copy/
paste the fonts from my Windows machine to my Linux systems) but well,
for our purpose we can expect that both "symbol.ttf" files (libwine and
windows) are the same :-)
> 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.
For this I can't tell, the OP will have to confirm.
> I may as well throw in something I came across earlier today:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700729
I experience the same problem with the mentioned PDF in the above bug
(using lenny and the windows symbol.ttf font by default).
> 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.
Yes, I would start from there: moving "symbol.ttf" (if present) or
listing all the symbol fonts he has in the system and placing them in a
different place other than the usual, one by one and testing each time.
> Either that or, as a way of working round it, use mupdf, which has the
> fonts compliled into the binary.
Then "mu" does the same as Acrobat Raeder: it uses its own fonts.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón