Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

happy solution. From: Greg Wooledge Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2025 10:54 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved) External Email: Use Caution > On 17/02/2025 01:23, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > > On Sund

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 09:27:19 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 16 Feb 2025 at 00:56:50 (+), Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > > Yes. I called evince from the command line in an xterm running under fvwm. > > I also call up the xterm and fvwm from startx (via ~/.xinitrc) when I log > > i

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

On 2025-02-17, David Wright wrote: >> >> And on Saturday, February 15, 2025 6:31 PM, Charles Curley asked: >> >> > Are you running evince and X as the same user? >> >> Yes. I called evince from the command line in an xterm running under fvwm. >> I also call up the xterm and fvwm from startx (v

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

On Sun 16 Feb 2025 at 00:56:50 (+), Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > On Saturday, February 15, 2025 5:31 PM, Dan Ritter replied: > > > That's the sort of thing that happens when you run evince from a > > command line not in an Xterminal, or from a terminal running on > > a different userid t

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

> On 17/02/2025 01:23, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > > On Sunday, February 16, 2025 8:53 AM, I wrote: > > > That should not *literally* be ~/.Xauthority of course. > > > > Yes, the output is literally > >/u/steve/.Xauthority A thought just occurred to me. Having your home directory outs

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

Steven, it seems you have managed to print your PDF file, so perhaps you should stop debugging evince (unless you need it for some feature with worse support in okular or browsers: form filling, printing, annotating, etc.; or you need to run another application with deep mandatory desktop integ

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

as steve causes different errors Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified Cannot parse arguments: Cannot open display: and no new lines in the output of "journalctl --user -b -e". Thanks. Sorry for the non-standard parts of my configuration. I have never felt

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 13:53:21 +, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > echo $DISPLAY -> :0 > xhost -> access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect > > > echo $XAUTHORITY > > > > The last usually points to ~/.Xauthority. > > echo $XAUTHORITY -> ~/.Xauthority That should no

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

__ From: Max Nikulin Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2025 9:39 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved) External Email: Use Caution On 16/02/2025 04:41, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > I installed Evince. C

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

On 16/02/2025 04:41, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: I installed Evince. Calling it brings up not even a GUI, just two error messages: Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified Cannot parse arguments: Cannot open display: Looks like missed DISPLAY environment varia

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

15, 2025 6:31 PM To: Debian Users Subject: Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved) External Email: Use Caution On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:41:27 + "Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)" wrote: > I installed Evince. Calling it brings up not even a GUI, just two > error messages:

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:41:27 + "Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)" wrote: > I installed Evince. Calling it brings up not even a GUI, just two > error messages: > Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified > Cannot parse arguments: Cannot open display: Interesting. I run evi

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

On 16/2/25 05:41, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: On Friday, February 14, 2025 5:08 PM, I wrote: I've completed my U.S. tax forms in the fillable PDFs provided by the Internal Revenue Service. Now I want to print them ... In the past, I was happy printing from Acrobat 9, which is still fine

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > On Friday, February 14, 2025 5:08 PM, I wrote: > > I installed Evince. Calling it brings up not even a GUI, just two error > messages: > Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified > Cannot parse arguments: Cannot open display: That's t

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

text I entered) evince (window permission failure) and these succeeded: firefox okular (albeit with error messages) Thanks for all of your many helpful suggestions. From: Greg Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2025 12:17 PM To: debian-user@lists.de

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview

On 2025-02-15, David Wright wrote: > > Without a DE, okular is quite a large install. On my bullseye, it > would require 194 new packages, including switching fuse to fuse3, > which might affect ntfs-3g and jmtpfs. > OTOH, I have evince installed from when I set up the machine, > and 48 extra pac

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview

On Sat 15 Feb 2025 at 06:47:23 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote: > Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > > Xpdf prints show a font that is a little too thick, and xpdf offers none of > > the printer's options (e.g. double-sided printing). I don't try Evince > > (Gnome) or Okular (KDE) because I run the fvw

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview

Which fonts are used by the pdf file? You could try pdffonts PDF_FILE The command is contained in package poppler-utils. Regards, Jörg.

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview

Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > Xpdf prints show a font that is a little too thick, and xpdf offers none of > the printer's options (e.g. double-sided printing). I don't try Evince > (Gnome) or Okular (KDE) because I run the fvwm window manager. Unless you are extremely low on disk space, the

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview

On 15/02/2025 05:08, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: I don't try Evince (Gnome) or Okular (KDE) because I run the fvwm window manager. Have you tried printing PDF files from Firefox or Chromium? There are some other PDF viewers like zathura and atril, but I have never tried their printing fe

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview

"Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)" wrote: > I've completed my U.S. tax forms in the fillable PDFs provided by the > Internal Revenue Service. Now I want to print them to (yes) submit > through snail mail. > > In the past, I was happy printing from Acrobat 9, which is still fine > for display purposes.

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview

On 2/14/25 15:08, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: I've completed my U.S. tax forms in the fillable PDFs provided by the Internal Revenue Service. Now I want to print them to (yes) submit through snail mail. In the past, I was happy printing from Acrobat 9, which is still fine for display purpo

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview

On 15/2/25 06:08, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: I've completed my U.S. tax forms in the fillable PDFs provided by the Internal Revenue Service. Now I want to print them to (yes) submit through snail mail. In the past, I was happy printing from Acrobat 9, which is still fine for display purpo

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview

Evince works for me under FVWM (though I rarely use it). -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: fonts and wine in Debian buster

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020, at 11:47 AM, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 19/04/2020 à 18:45, didier gaumet a écrit : > > > [...] to link is to copy:[...] > > > sorry: to link is not to copy > > Thank you Didier, you are right, linking is not copying. Linking works for me actually, and the article you lin

Re: fonts and wine in Debian buster

Le 19/04/2020 à 18:45, didier gaumet a écrit : > [...] to link is to copy:[...] sorry: to link is not to copy

Re: fonts and wine in Debian buster

Le 19/04/2020 à 16:34, Anil F Duggirala a écrit : > Thank you Richard. As far as I can see in this link, they simply > recommend making a link between my system fonts and the famous Fonts > folder in drive_c/windows. My OP was about not having to do that [...] Hello Anil, You did mention that yo

Re: fonts and wine in Debian buster

On Fri, 2020-04-17 at 04:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/17/2020 03:01 AM, didier gaumet wrote: > > Hello, > > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine#Fonts > > Thank you. That page and it's links seem to provide a good > introduction > to WINE. Installing WINE has been on my to-do

Re: fonts and wine in Debian buster

On 04/18/2020 03:15 AM, didier gaumet wrote: there is a Debian Wiki page about Wine: https://wiki.debian.org/Wine (I did not provide this link before because it is less specific about fonts) Thank you. That answers most of the questions raised while reading https://wiki.archlinux.org/index

Re: fonts and wine in Debian buster

there is a Debian Wiki page about Wine: https://wiki.debian.org/Wine (I did not provide this link before because it is less specific about fonts)

Re: fonts and wine in Debian buster

On 04/17/2020 03:01 AM, didier gaumet wrote: Hello, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine#Fonts Thank you. That page and it's links seem to provide a good introduction to WINE. Installing WINE has been on my to-do list but I never got around to searching out suitable references.

Re: fonts and wine in Debian buster

Hello, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine#Fonts

Re: Fonts for widgets in Cinnamon

On Sat, 2017-08-19 at 21:04 +0200, Jeff wrote: > I have been using Cinnamon (from testing) for a couple of years with > no > problem until a couple of days ago, when suddenly the font size for > most > widgets increased. This is annoying, as certain lists in things like > Thunderbird no longer fit

Re: Fonts readability (was: Arial vs. Helvetica.)

debian.org Subject: Re: Fonts readability (was: Arial vs. Helvetica.) Resent-Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 12:52:14 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Thanks for the reply! It looks like you're right--getting this changed sounds like paddling upstream against a fairly high curren

Re: Fonts readability (was: Arial vs. Helvetica.)

Thanks for the reply! It looks like you're right--getting this changed sounds like paddling upstream against a fairly high current! On Thursday, August 03, 2017 11:30:35 AM Nicolas George wrote: > Le sextidi 16 thermidor, an CCXXV, rhkra...@gmail.com a écrit : > > > Even worse, the anti-aliasing

Re: Fonts readability (was: Arial vs. Helvetica.)

On Thu, 03 Aug 2017, Nicolas George wrote: > Another point where the bitmap fonts beat the vectorial fonts at tiny > sizes: you usually want your vectorial fonts anti-aliased, but at tiny > sizes it hurts readability. Even worse, the anti-aliasing is done wrong: > it is done without taking gamma co

Re: Fonts readability (was: Arial vs. Helvetica.)

Le sextidi 16 thermidor, an CCXXV, rhkra...@gmail.com a écrit : > > Even worse, the anti-aliasing is done wrong: > > it is done without taking gamma correction into account. That means that > > when 50% intensity is wanted, it produces 22% intensity instead: > > black-on-white is too thick, white-o

Re: Fonts readability (was: Arial vs. Helvetica.)

On Thursday, August 03, 2017 08:23:37 AM Nicolas George wrote: > Even worse, the anti-aliasing is done wrong: > it is done without taking gamma correction into account. That means that > when 50% intensity is wanted, it produces 22% intensity instead: > black-on-white is too thick, white-on-black i

Re: Fonts appearing with evince but not okular

On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 21:24 -0500, Dylan Thurston wrote: > Hello, > > On my Debian unstable system, I have a document which evince displays > correctly, but for which okular does not display much of the > text. This strikes me as odd, since (as I understand it) both > ultimately use the poppler ba

Re: Fonts query

On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:03:59 +0100 Siard wrote: > > Ta, I'll risk the hackish way as I want those fonts to be available > > to all users. > In that case, there is a third way: > su -l -c "ln -sf ~/MyFonts /usr/local/share/fonts" > But the usual way to install fonts system wide beyond the p

Re: Fonts query

Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI: > Reco: > > Debian-correct upgrade-safe way: > > su -l -c "ln -sf ~/MyFonts ~/.fonts" > > > Hackish you've-been-warned way: > > Add "~/MyFonts" stanza into /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. > > Second way is hackish *and* wrong because Keith Packard himself > > tells you that from the

Re: Fonts query

On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:44:03 -0500 Felix Miata wrote: > > Ta, I'll risk the hackish way as I want those fonts to be available to all > > users. > > Make symlink from ~/MyFonts to /usr/local/share/fonts Ta, that should remain through updates. Cheers, Ron. -- Some people are worried a

Re: Fonts query

Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI composed on 2016-02-12 16:05 (UTC-0300): > On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:46:55 +0300 Reco wrote: >> > Given a collection of .ttf font files I keep in my ~/MyFonts/ directory. >> > How do I instruct Wheezy to also look in that dir when I run >> >root@ron:/home/ron # fc-cache -fv

Re: Fonts query

On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:46:55 +0300 Reco wrote: > > Given a collection of .ttf font files I keep in my ~/MyFonts/ directory. > > How do I instruct Wheezy to also look in that dir when I run > > root@ron:/home/ron # fc-cache -fv > > to reload the font cache ? > Debian-correct upgrade-safe way:

Re: Fonts query

Hi. On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:37:56 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > Given a collection of .ttf font files I keep in my ~/MyFonts/ directory. > > How do I instruct Wheezy to also look in that dir when I run > > root@ron:/home/ron # fc-cache -fv > > to reload the font cache ? De

Re: [OT] Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On Sunday, March 23, 2014 9:30:02 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 07:20:56AM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > Chris Bannister writes: > > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:26:01AM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > > > on Ottoman turkish (arabic writing - btw ancient

Re: Re: Fonts providing emojis?

> On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 00:48 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > These characters do seem to be > > > increasingly widely used. > > > > Agreed. I "guess" you're asking "why is the font not in the Debian > > repository?" > > > > Are their license issues? That would be my first though when > > cons

Re: Fonts for all Unicode glyphs?

On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 06:49:10PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > Is there any remotely straightforward way, in Debian, to install font > packages to explicitly satisfy the goal of "provide suitable glyphs to > cover the entire Unicode character space"? ('unifont' looks like it > would get me started

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

> "JN" == Jennifer Nussbaum writes: JN> That does, but requires me to know the answer already. I guess my JN> question is, "if i have a Twitter message with a rectangular box JN> with "01f 1e7" in it, how do i figure out what that is?" First, the hex strings are unicode code points. In this

[OT] Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 07:20:56AM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Chris Bannister writes: > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:26:01AM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > > on Ottoman turkish (arabic writing - btw ancient Greek students already > > > had TeX (if they knew they had it ;) ). > > >

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On 20/03/14 17:20, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Chris Bannister writes: > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:26:01AM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > > on Ottoman turkish (arabic writing - btw ancient Greek students already > > > had TeX (if they knew they had it ;) ). > > > > Ay what? How old *is

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

Chris Bannister writes: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:26:01AM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > on Ottoman turkish (arabic writing - btw ancient Greek students already > > had TeX (if they knew they had it ;) ). > > Ay what? How old *is* Mr Knuth? Two things. - Dr. Knuth will never be "o

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:26:01AM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > on Ottoman turkish (arabic writing - btw ancient Greek students already > had TeX (if they knew they had it ;) ). Ay what? How old *is* Mr Knuth? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who ar

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

First of all, sorry for being a bit out of sync with the thread On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 10:02 AM, Ralf Mardorf I have got doubts that "Fonts for Ancient Scripts" are "increasingly > widely used". Ralf, I think that you are a bit wrong with this statement. The increased popularity of computin

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 20:15 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 11:45 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > I see this kind of thing [...] in messages my kids send me from their > > phones. > > :) PS: What's the bigger issue, a missing font or teenage hormones ;)? -- To UNSUB

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 11:45 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > I see this kind of thing [...] in messages my kids send me from their > phones. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org A

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

> On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 10:02 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 06:06 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: >> Is it really the case tht there's no pre-built package for this in >> Debian? These characters do seem to be increasingly widely used. > > For my exotic audi

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

> On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 10:02 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 06:06 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: >> Is it really the case tht there's no pre-built package for this in >> Debian? These characters do seem to be increasingly widely used. > > For my exotic audi

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

> On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 10:02 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 06:06 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: >> Is it really the case tht there's no pre-built package for this in >> Debian? These characters do seem to be increasingly widely used. > > For my exotic audi

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On 3/18/14, Scott Ferguson wrote: > I use and highly recommend fontmatrix - a font manager/viewer/wizard. NICE tip and why I try to read EVERYTHING.. Just writing to additionally tip (for newer users) that it might take "sudo fontmatrix" to view the full interactive [GUI] if you decide to instal

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 00:48 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > These characters do seem to be > > increasingly widely used. > > Agreed. I "guess" you're asking "why is the font not in the Debian > repository?" > > Are their license issues? That would be my first though when > considering why they h

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 06:06 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Is it really the case tht there's no pre-built package for this in > Debian? These characters do seem to be increasingly widely used. For my exotic audio production needs I prefer Arch Linux over Debian. If you have other exotic ne

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On 19/03/14 00:06, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > >> On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:19 AM, Scott Ferguson >> wrote: >>> On 18/03/14 22:38, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: What Debian font >>> packages provide emojis? >> >> "apt-file" search and "apt-cache search" give nothing. >> >> Fortunately f

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

> On , Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > That does, but requires me to know the answer already. I guess my question > is, > "if i have a Twitter message with a rectangular box with "01f > 1ey" in it, how do i figure out what that is?" Typo--i meant '01f 1e7", as in my original message. I

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

> On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:19 AM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: > > On 18/03/14 22:38, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: >> What Debian font packages provide emojis? > > "apt-file" search and "apt-cache search" > give nothing. > > Fortunately fontology is a hobby so I know it's part of Symbola. > >

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On 18/03/14 23:18, Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Joel Rees > wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum > mailto:bg271...@yahoo.com>> wrote: > > What Debian font packages provide emojis? > > > > And, in

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On 18/03/14 22:38, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > What Debian font packages provide emojis? "apt-file" search and "apt-cache search" give nothing. Fortunately fontology is a hobby so I know it's part of Symbola. > At least, thats what i > think they are. Ive seen messages with little rectangular

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum > wrote: > >> What Debian font packages provide emojis? > > > 絵文字？ > Come to think of it, have you looked at the emoji page on wikipedia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji At least, tha

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > What Debian font packages provide emojis? 絵文字？ > At least, thats what i think they are. Ive seen messages with little > rectangular boxes with "01f 44d" and "01f 1e7" in them, and some googling > suggests these are thumbs-up signs

Re: Fonts not rendering at all

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Julio Merino wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Schrey wrote: >> Julio Merino wrote: >> >>> ... Debian testing ... fonts are not rendered at all in X.org ... >> >> Not sure if related, but I have a similar problem when using >> NoMachine's NX. Downgrading l

Re: Fonts not rendering at all

On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:19:56 -0500 Julio Merino wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Schrey > wrote: > > Julio Merino wrote: > > > >> ... Debian testing ... fonts are not rendered at all in X.org ... > > > > Not sure if related, but I have a similar problem when using > > NoMachine's NX. Do

Re: Fonts not rendering at all

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Schrey wrote: > Julio Merino wrote: > >> ... Debian testing ... fonts are not rendered at all in X.org ... > > Not sure if related, but I have a similar problem when using > NoMachine's NX. Downgrading libcairo2 and libcairo-gobject2 > from 1.12.2-2 to version 1.10

Re: Fonts not rendering at all

Julio Merino wrote: ... Debian testing ... fonts are not rendered at all in X.org ... Not sure if related, but I have a similar problem when using NoMachine's NX. Downgrading libcairo2 and libcairo-gobject2 from 1.12.2-2 to version 1.10.2-2 fixed it for me. (XFCE4 desktop) Regards Ingmar --

Re: fonts used by evince

On Sat 23 Jun 2012 at 08:54:47 +, Camaleón wrote: > I'm using the Symbol TrueType font that came by default along with > Windows XP¹, I can send you the file if you want to play with it. Thank you for the offer. I managed to get it from elsewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: fonts used by evince

On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 08:54:47 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> Well, as I already explained, the same TrueType font works well in >>> Wheezy so to my eyes is not the font that is a menace but a bug >>> located elsewhere in both Squeeze and Lenny :-) Mmm... after running more tests in Wheezy I rea

Re: fonts used by evince

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, > > Where can we download this file to test? > > my version can be obtained via svn: URL: https://root.cern.ch/svn/root/tags/v5-30-04/fonts Cheers, Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG wi

Re: fonts used by evince

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:58:04 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 17:42:26 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> > I wonder whether it is. His has "Copyright URW Software, Copyright >> > 1997 by URW" in the file. >> >> What file? You mean the .ttf font? :-? > > Of course. > >> When I open "s

Re: fonts used by evince

On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 17:42:26 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:25:55 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 16:11:49 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:48:23 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: > >> > >> > - symbol.ttf which comes with cernroot is behaving st

Re: fonts used by evince

Hi, > > You deleted all the fonts under "/usr/share/fonts/" path? :-? no, I did as was suggested by brian (keep the X fonts and gsfonts) > > - ttf files not only help displaying fonts, they can also break it. > > This is not because of TTF but a bug coming from a different place (in > wheezy

Re: fonts used by evince

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:25:55 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 16:11:49 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:48:23 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: >> >> > - symbol.ttf which comes with cernroot is behaving strangely >> > using it for displaying causes wrong displaying of non

Re: fonts used by evince

On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 16:11:49 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:48:23 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: > > > - symbol.ttf which comes with cernroot is behaving strangely > > using it for displaying causes wrong displaying of non embedded greek > > letters. > > The behaviour you get

Re: fonts used by evince

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:48:23 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: > Okay, > I don't precisely know what fixed it but now the font is correctly > displayed for me. deleting files from /usr/share/fonts/ somewhat brought > unreproducible results. You deleted all the fonts under "/usr/share/fonts/" path? :-?

Re: fonts used by evince

Okay, I don't precisely know what fixed it but now the font is correctly displayed for me. deleting files from /usr/share/fonts/ somewhat brought unreproducible results. I started font-manager (which I believed to be inactive since I commented out the corresponding entries in ~/.fonts.conf). In deb

Re: fonts used by evince

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:10:59 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 20:59:23 +, 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

Re: fonts used by evince

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

Re: fonts used by evince

On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:14:09 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 17:57:32 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> It seems to me that the Symbol font itself has some sort of problem: >> when it is referenced (linked) it's badly rendered, when embedded is >> named as SymbolMT... Mmm... > > As I have

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On Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 17:57:32 +, Camaleón wrote: > It seems to me that the Symbol font itself has some sort of problem: when > it is referenced (linked) it's badly rendered, when embedded is named > as SymbolMT... Mmm... As I have described I have no problem seeing the pdf as its maker int

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On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:06:35 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: > On 11.06.2012 18:45, Camaleón wrote: >> Okay, I finally figured out what was the problem: it's not the >> ZapfDingbats font but Symbol that makes a difference. >> >> When I add this chunk of text into my "~/.fonts.conf" file, the PDF is >

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On Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 19:06:35 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: > On 11.06.2012 18:45, Camaleón wrote: > > > > Okay, I finally figured out what was the problem: it's not the > > ZapfDingbats font but Symbol that makes a difference. > > > > When I add this chunk of text into my "~/.fonts.conf" file, t

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11.06.2012 18:45, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:36:38 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:44:12 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: >> >>> On 10.06.2012 17:27, Camaleón wrote: (...) > > Okay, I finally figured out what was the pr

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On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:36:38 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:44:12 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: > >> On 10.06.2012 17:27, Camaleón wrote: (...) > I wonder if the *Dingbats is the real problem here. If you had access to > the original document you can ensure the symbols that displ

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On Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 00:09:44 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: > > It looks like your system plus evince has made a substitution for a > > glyph. Have you tried viewing the pdf with xpdf and/or mupdf? Both of > > these (and evince) display the mu correctly on my systems. > > > yeah, mupdf displays it

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > >> something else which came to my mind: is there a way to tell a >> missing font from having a wrong font? > > It looks like your system plus evince has made a substitution for > a glyph. Have you tried viewing the pdf with xpdf and/or mupdf? > B

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> >> something else which came to my mind: is there a way to tell a missing >> font from having a wrong font? > > It looks like your system plus evince has made a substitution for a > glyph. Have you tried viewing the pdf with xpdf and/or mupdf? Both of > these (and evince) display the mu correc

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10.06.2012 21:04, Siard wrote: > Paul Seyfert wrote: >> to make it short, I think these are the most relevant packages I >> have installed: >> >> $ dpkg --get-selections | grep install | grep fonts | sed >> "s/\tinstall//" ... ... > >> $ dpkg --ge

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On Sun 10 Jun 2012 at 19:44:12 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: > On 10.06.2012 17:27, Camaleón wrote: > > > > The only tipography I don't have installed in my system is > > "ZapfDingbats" and this font is included within Acrobat Reader. > > This can be problem here. > > okay. do you know where I co

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On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:44:12 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: > On 10.06.2012 17:27, Camaleón wrote: >> Not embedding the fonts is a problem if you are planing to redistribute >> a document that uses mathematical symbols. In such cases, is better to >> include the fonts in the document although doing

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Paul Seyfert wrote: > to make it short, I think these are the most relevant packages I have > installed: > > $ dpkg --get-selections | grep install | grep fonts | sed "s/\tinstall//" > > ... > ... > $ dpkg --get-selection

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10.06.2012 17:27, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:32:27 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: > >> I have created an eps file with cern root and converted it with >> epstopdf to pdf. >> http://mathphys.fsk.uni-heidelberg.de/~pseyfert/Fig5.pdf I the

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10.06.2012 19:44, Siard wrote: > Paul Seyfert wrote: >> I have created an eps file with cern root and converted it with >> epstopdf to pdf. >> http://mathphys.fsk.uni-heidelberg.de/~pseyfert/Fig5.pdf I then >> look at the result in evince >> http

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