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