On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 10:57:24PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Jason Crain schrieb am 21.07.2018 um 20:51: > > How does it look if you run `pdftocairo -png in.pdf out` to convert to > > png images? pdftocairo is in the poppler-utils package. Evince uses > > poppler for PDF rendering so that should get the same result as Evince. > > Seems like there is something off, when I do that I get the following: > > I/O Error: Cannot open '/root/.fonts/verdana.ttf' > Syntax Error: failed to load truetype font<0a> > some font thing failed > > This is repeated at lot of times for "arial.ttf", "verdana.ttf" and > "verdanab.ttf". > > I have no idea why Evince/poppler suddenly thinks these fonts reside in > /root/.fonts. They always where in /home/<user>/.fonts and I cannot remember > the last time I ever changed something about this.
Poppler uses fontconfig to locate fonts so it sounds like there's something wrong with fontconfig instead of poppler or evince. There's a few things you can try like using `fc-cat -v` to inspect the cache files or `fc-cache -f` to rebuild the cache.
