Helvetica in Evince

Allan · 2007-08-24 05:53:02

I am looking at some horrid looking pdfs using evince... The problem is non-embedded fonts and helvetica is the number on culprit.

I have xorg-fonts-75/100dpi installed which I think Helvetica is in but this does not help. Any ideas?

Last edited by Allan (2007-08-26 04:27:11)

Stefan Husmann · 2007-08-24 07:31:47

Hello,

do you have ghostscript installed? It comes with a font named NimbusSans, which is the open of free replacement for Helvetica.

Allan · 2007-08-24 08:47:59

I have ghostscript and gsfonts installed. How can you set evince to use NimbusSans when a document wants to use Helvetica?

Stefan Husmann · 2007-08-24 14:22:23

Weird ... every application should be aware that hardly any user has the original Adobe Postscript-Fonts, but the commonly used replacements by URW.
I never had such a problem (or at least I never noticed it) but I think fontconfig deals with such mappings between fonts.
Did you test your pdf-file with other viewers like acroread, gv or xpdf?

Stefan Husmann · 2007-08-24 14:52:13

Not directly helping but for deeper interest read the following, especially the section about the 14 standard fonts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format

Every pdf-viewer has to be aware of the set of fonts described there, and if not it is not a pdf-viewer.

Allan · 2007-08-25 02:49:45

I just downloaded acroread (that is massive!) and it displays the document properly. So it seems that this is just an evince problem

Good example:
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releas … oksize.pdf

If any one has this looking good in evince I would like the fix... dealing with acroread and it plugin that crashes firefox more often than not will be annoying!

xsdnyd · 2007-08-25 08:36:56

i have the same problem with epdfview, both are using poppler to display pdf files.
so i think the problem is poppler

Last edited by xsdnyd (2007-08-25 08:37:39)

iBertus · 2007-08-25 14:46:05

Using acroread as a comparison is not very good. It likely comes with it's own default fonts. You more than likely just need an alias in your font config to make sure apps take advantage of the fonts.

vogets · 2007-08-25 15:13:36

Try:

rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf

This snippet of the font configuration replaces Helvetica and Times with sans-serif and serif which are mapped to Bitstream Vera Sans / Serif.

It should fix evince and epdfview.

xsdnyd · 2007-08-25 16:58:15

thank you very much vogets, it works!

Last edited by xsdnyd (2007-08-25 17:02:41)

Allan · 2007-08-26 00:27:10

Thanks, fix worked.

Edit: It also screwed up the fonts used for RSS feeds in thunderbird. I have all thunderbird fonts set to use the Liberation fonts set.

Last edited by Allan (2007-08-26 04:28:07)

Allan · 2008-02-22 12:15:09

Edit: Fixes evince but stills screws up the fonts in Thunderbird RSS feeds.

Last edited by Allan (2008-02-22 12:17:33)

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