Comment 5 for bug 1448778

Just to add a note: it happened to me also, because I have /usr/local as a symlink to /home/local (in a different partition) and evince (or apparmor) correctly complained.

So all fonts from Microsoft, which are installed in /usr/local/font, came out blank.

Setting aa-complain solved momentarily the thing, then an edit of the profiles is recommended.

Now, 'some font thing failed' is not exactly a very informative error message... ;-)