Bug 510441

Summary: WISH: Allow limiting PDF comments to the standard fonts Helvetica, Courier, Times Roman
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: Klaus <bauer.klaus.dieter>
Component: PDF backendAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 23.08.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Klaus 2025-10-09 22:22:44 UTC 
The PDF standard requires that all viewers render the fonts Helvetica, Times Roman and Courier --- and their italic, bold, and bold italic variants --- without them being embedded.

Given that fonts used in comments are embedded (not as subset fonts, but the whole font), significantly increasing the file size of the PDF, the ability to restrict comments to the standard fonts would be very useful.

Note that this is currently not even possible to do manually, unless you actually have a license for these fonts; While metric-compatible fonts can be used, they will also be embedded when saving the comments.
Comment 1 Klaus 2025-10-13 10:14:13 UTC 
Accidental repost after some months. Original ticket contains more information.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 506426 ***