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waysdi

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Registered: 2016-04-14

Posts: 8

Special char missing .pdf

Hi everyone,
I have this issue:

The output of my $locale is this:

LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

How i can solve this problem?

Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 1,391

Re: Special char missing .pdf

You have to provide much more information about what you did. On first sight it looks like a broken pdf.

- How do you open the pdf?
- What DE?
- Where did you get the pdf from?

waysdi

Member

Registered: 2016-04-14

Posts: 8

Re: Special char missing .pdf

I open it with Evince..
The pdf has been downloaded from the site of my professor..
On Osx the char is correctly showed

R00KIE

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From: Between a computer and a chair

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 4,734

Re: Special char missing .pdf

I would guess the problem is missing fonts in your machine.

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waysdi

Member

Registered: 2016-04-14

Posts: 8

Re: Special char missing .pdf

In this case what is the correct font?
And how i can set it?

paulkerry

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2014-10-02

Posts: 611

Re: Special char missing .pdf

pdf files contain embedded fonts, so I would agree with @Stefan Husmann in that the pdf file is broken as all relevant fonts should be incorporated into the pdf when it is originally created - I guess your Professor forgot to do this when he/she made the pdf! If the fonts aren't embedded, then fonts are substituted which is why you are getting the square box because there is no possible substitution available: perhaps OSX has this font by default so it can make the correct substitution?

I'm not sure if evince can tell you, but adobe reader (acroread) can tell you.

This page gives a brief overview - https://blogs.mtu.edu/gradschool/2010/0 … -embedded/

edit: just found out evince can tell you the fonts in use - open the file, click the file options button - properties - fonts

Last edited by paulkerry (2016-04-15 17:07:54)