Bug 139562

Summary:	override font to use in pdf documents
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Ludo <ludootje>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aacid, kde-2011.08, maarizwan
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Ludo 2007-01-03 16:23:10 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

PDF documents (possibly the same applies to postscript & djvu) specify the font to use to render the document (or even embed the font if my understanding is correct). What would be great is if it would be possible to enforce the use of another font in the configuration dialog.
This would be useful for documents which have not-very-readable fonts.

Not sure if this is possible, but I assume it is.

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2007-06-04 12:02:16 UTC

Reassigning to the mailing list

Comment 2 Robert Knight 2008-01-12 20:23:36 UTC

I'd like to second this.  A couple of my lecturers in the past have had a habit of using Comic Sans MS (I kid you not) in their PDF slides.  Being able to replace this with a sane Sans Serif font would have been much appreciated.

Comment 3 Dotan Cohen 2009-06-05 14:47:25 UTC

It appears that the Windows version of Adobe Reader has a font replacement
option, called 'local fonts'. So there is precedent for this feature. Furthermore, on Bug 137062 a workaround was proposed:

"""
It's right that one can 'ADD' font substitution in .fonts.conf. Here's the example which i added to Change the non-existing Baskerville font to "Times New Roman" which looks a lot better in KPDF.

... (after </match>) in ~/.fonts.conf

<alias>
<family>Baskerville</family>
<accept><family>Times New Roman</family></accept>
</alias>
</fontconfig>

"""

Comment 4 Albert Astals Cid 2009-08-26 23:57:29 UTC

To support this in a feature we need poppler to support it, please go to http://bugs.freedesktop.org/ and report a feature request on it

Comment 5 Dotan Cohen 2009-08-27 12:53:30 UTC

*** Bug 137062 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Dotan Cohen 2009-08-27 12:58:28 UTC

> To support this in a feature we need poppler
> to support it

Thanks, Albert, the bug is filed here:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23546

Please comment and vote on that bug.

Comment 7 Albert Astals Cid 2012-12-08 22:37:06 UTC

Moving to new, "needsinfo" is not a good state for this bug, it might be "Resolved" "Later" but i don't like the "resolved" part, so we'll just store it on new

Comment 8 Laura David Hurka 2019-04-27 18:00:10 UTC

Overriding the font would also be useful for .epub. I have an .epub here which sets the font to serif in every <p> in it’s internal .html files.

The .epub uses only this one font, so a global override would be appropiate.

In the epub backend config dialog, only the default font is available. This can  change the font size, as it is not set by the .epub.

(In general, I think that an .epub shouldn’t set the font.)