Re: Symbolmt Font Mac Install
Sofie Kovalcheck
I'm having a problem with a PDF of my professor. Apparently he is using some monospace font in his PDFs which are shown pretty strange with okular (and evince). Only the Adobe Acrobat Reader is showing the fonts in a readable way but I don't want to use Adobe Acrobat Reader because it has no annotation features. I want to stick with okular.
I already installed the package ttf-ms-fonts, downloaded the SymbolMT font manually, did a fc-cache -vf and tried to open the pdf again with okular. The output is this:
/E: Here is the output of the adobe reader: (Still ugly but more readable.. this is how it is supposed to look)
I had a similar issue with a serie of japanese pdf files, using a quite old japanese fonts.
These fonts are used a lot in Japan, but are not well supported in linux.
I tried many configurations of xpdf, evince, even the adobe linux version.
Eventualy, I got success with "foxitreader" (aur, v1.1-5 now)
I'm trying to get ghostscript to render a pdf file from a Windows box. The pdf file uses the ComicSansMS font. I've copied the comic.ttf file from my Windows7 box into my /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts directory, and I've created a Fontmap file in that same directory containing this line:
As nearly as I can tell, the font is not being found despite this. The text comes out very poorly, and some of the smaller font sizes are rendered half the size they should be. Access times and strace show that the Fontmap file is being read, but the font file (comic.ttf) is not being accessed at all. There are no error messages:
Text is definitely being rendered incorrectly in parts of the document. Each letter is far too small, though the spacing is oddly correct. However, the individual letters are the correct shape for the font.
The font on disk is not being accessed, but that's because the fonts are all embedded within the document. This fact would probably have been obvious to a Ghostscript expert from the output I posted in the original question (I'm guessing the "HYLUQF+" prefix is the smoking gun there), but I don't work with Ghostscript much. My fonts were installed correctly, and other documents were able to access them without trouble.
Of course, this still leaves the question of why my embedded fonts are being rendered incorrectly, but I will investigate that separately and/or post a different question. I maintain that the PDF file is uncorrupted (I have several other PDFs which exhibit the same problem), but I still don't know what's wrong.
@pipitas: Thanks very much for trying. You certainly did help verify that my installed fonts are not the problem. Actually, now that I look again, you even gently suggested the font might be embedded, but I either didn't see it, didn't believe it, or didn't know how to check.
Essentially, I open a PDF (unknown who produced it or how much it's been modified since then), but on some computers I get the error "Cannot find or create the font 'ArialMT'. Some characters may not display or print correctly.", while on others, I get no error dialog at all, but some text is just white boxes while other text (even within the same word or even just a closing bracket (i.e., ']') shows up fine:
From digging into the issue, I understand that some version/variation of a font wasn't embedded when the PDF was created, but what I don't understand is why I can open the exact same PDF in various PDF applications and some of them are able to display the entire PDF without any issue. To wit:
Adobe Acrobat Pro DC (2021.005.20060) - White boxes
I ran the document in question through PreFlight and of course it finds a host of issues (font name is not unique; font not embedded; font reverts to .notdef glyph; text cannot be mapped to unicode; etc.).
As correctly said, it is the font issue as the font is not properly embedded in the PDF file or it is not present on your computer system. Please try the following preference settings and see if that works for you. Go to Edit (Win), Adobe Acrobat (Mac) > Preferences > Page Display > Under rendering, check use
As correctly said, it is the font issue as the font is not properly embedded in the PDF file or it is not present on your computer system. Please try the following preference settings and see if that works for you. Go to Edit (Win), Adobe Acrobat (Mac) > Preferences > Page Display > Under rendering, check use local fonts and click OK and reboot the system.
I have a theory on this one: The font I had this issue with is a font that Adobe licensed in the 1990's, but no longer does. I believe they may use this function as a licensing control mechanism.
I'm using FontMapper.getTrueTypeFont() to find available fonts by name in pdfbox 2.0.7. This has a feature to map fonts (by name) so that if I ask for Symbol and my system only has SymbolMT it will return that as a substitute.
Above, after a quick look, I originally stated that APub was displaying the Unicode codes that are there, but it is not. It is display something else. The codes I see under the characters are all wacko, but they are not what is displayed. So I am not sure what APub is doing.
In theory, because Identity-H is a standard character map, you should be able to go from the embedded fonts character IDs (CID) and translate that into the correct Unicode code points, completely ignoring the PDF ToUnicode table. Dunno. Makes me crazy.
This is a different issue - which caused a lot of issues with LibreOffice compatibility with Word.
Word uses a symbol font (non-Unicode) for the bullets.
The font is also called Symbol (file symbol.ttf).
In the font file the PostScriptName is SymbolMT (which is what you see in the PDF fonts).
So what happened with LibreOffice is they want to be able to round-trip documents with Word users on Windows, and LibreOffice user on Linux, etc.
LibreOffice does not always have access to this Windows font (e.g Linux users).
So they needed to get the bullets working on multiple OSs and applications.
It stopped working on LO on Linux, then it did not work on Windows, etc.
They finally got it working.
When you paste the bullets and the text, the first thing the app sees is that bullet, and that bullet is a symbol font, so it guesses that the text is all the same, and you get a mess because it thinks it is all symbols.
If you paste just the text, it only sees the text as a normal Unicode font.
If you import the DOCX it does bring both the bullets and text correctly.
BTW, I was able to successfully see the wording in its true form after using special tools, but even then you need to have those fonts installed in your system (some that may require a license). The first jumbled text BTW said HAL ELROD's. Whoever sent this particular PDF needs to establish better guidelines to check the integrity of every PDF file before sending them out, its not impossible and it doesn't have to be expensive either. I don't recommend wasting your time working with any corrupt files sent to you. Your time is too valuable for that. At least we now confirmed that the file was corrupted from another source to begin with.
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