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  1. Bug #1448778
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 1448778

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Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) wrote : Re: [Bug 1448778] Re: Evince fails to display some fonts (some font thing failed)

On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 06:54:59PM -0000, bitinerant wrote:
> I appreciate the suggestions, but none quite fit my use case. It's
> really 2 users wanting to share the fonts--one owns them and the other
> has a symlink. If I put them in /usr/local/share/fonts/ then they don't
> get backed up and can't be modified. I think the simplest option for me
> is to use the extra 74 MB and make a copy for each user.

Heh, indeed, "fonts that might be changed" never crossed my mind!

> Do you agree, however, that it would be helpful to display a message for
> the user rather than empty space in their PDF?

Absolutely agreed. I'd expect a fallback to a font that *is* available
and a notice in a status bar that fonts have been replaced due to errors.
Nothing that would make a user *click* on anything but that would clearly
explain the issue for a user curious why a document doesn't look right.

Thanks