https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2088665
Alejandro Ochoa alexviiiag@gmail.com changed:
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--- Comment #9 from Alejandro Ochoa alexviiiag@gmail.com --- I am a different user still experiencing these exact issues! I think the bug should be reopened.
I downloaded the sample files and still experience the same exact problem, namely that certain special characters are missing, and displayed as boxes, in evince, but not with other software (i.e. the same PDF opened in Firefox displays all characters correctly). I am using Fedora 37 fully updated, in fact the same issue is present in 3 different machines with the same system, and I've had this issue for a while just like the original poster, since upgrading to Fedora 36.
I regularly experience this issue with PDFs that I create using R (plots containing innocuous symbols such as a minus sign and greek letters), which interferes with me giving presentations! This bug is a big deal to me professionally, and at least having a workaround would be greatly appreciated.
Here's what `pdffonts` reports on a recently offending file I created, which matches the original bug report in showing a "Symbol" font that appears the be the source of these problems:
$ pdffonts pq-tgp-delta-boxplot.pdf name type encoding emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- --------- Helvetica Type 1 Custom no no no 10 0 Helvetica-Bold Type 1 Custom no no no 11 0 Symbol Type 1 Symbol no no no 12 0