Bug 393459

Does pdftoppm have the same behaviour of not showing the text? If so it's defenitely not a bug in okular but may be a bug in poppler.

(In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #1)
> Does pdftoppm have the same behaviour of not showing the text?
No, the ppm file do show the text.

that is very strange, we'll need the file (though that doesn't mean we're going to work on a fix now or in the future, but without no file, that's a definite no, so let's have the file)

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screenshot of file in viewer

Created attachment 112229 [details]
screenshot of file in viewer with (invisible) text selected

You probably have a wrong Helvetica font substitution configured on your system, please attach a screenshot of Files->Properties->Fonts

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screenshot of file fonts in viewer

it works for with with Nimbus provided by gsfonts, give it a try and make sure you tweak your fontconfig

Erik, did comment #8 help to resolve the issue?

(In reply to Christoph Feck from comment #9)
> Erik, did comment #8 help to resolve the issue?
I have not managed to try it out. My initial attempts stranded because I do not know how to get Nimbus to be selected for substitution. I inquired on the Gentoo forums, but did not get a response that helped me understand what I needed to do. Currently, I do not have the time to try further.

(In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #6)
> You probably have a wrong Helvetica font substitution configured on your
> system, […]
When I open the file in inkscape, it appears that the text that is missing for me uses Arial and so the embedded font should be used, I would think.

(In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #8)
> it works for with with Nimbus provided by gsfonts, give it a try and make
> sure you tweak your fontconfig
I can't seem to get my fontconfig to choose Nimbus, even though it is installed. But perhaps that is another issue. I did manage to get TeX Gyre and Linux Libertine instead of Liberation Sans as replacements for Helvetica, but neither gave a difference, possibly because the Helvetica substitution is not the problem here.

Maybe it's too obvious, but did you check if file '/usr/share/fonts/liberation-fonts/LiberationSans-Regular.ttf' exists? On my system, fonts are in '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/', but the actual font directories might be distribution-specific.

(In reply to Christoph Feck from comment #12)
> […], but did you check if file
> '/usr/share/fonts/liberation-fonts/LiberationSans-Regular.ttf' exists?
Yes, and it does exist.

Also, I think that font is not the problem, as per my comment 11.

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