Re: DIngbat renders wrong

[Hib Eris <hib hiberis nl>]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Hib Eris <hib hiberis nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Denis Bitouzé <dbitouze wanadoo fr> wrote:
>> Le mercredi 02/06/10 à 12h00,
>> George Sicherman <colonel monmouth com> a écrit :
>>
>>> I'm using Evince 2.26.2 with Fedora 11 x64 on a PDF
>>> that I generated from raw PostScript with ps2pdf using
>>> GS 8.71.  The file includes a scissors character from
>>> Zapf Dingbats.  Acrobat Reader displays it correctly.
>>> Evince displays a pound sterling symbol instead.
>>>
>>> Am I doing something wrong, or is it a bug?  You can
>>> download the PDF here:
>
> The problem is in fontconfig configuration. In my fontconfig
> configuration files on openSUSE 11.2, in
> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/30-urw-aliases.conf I can find an entry for
> "Zapf Dingbats", but it has no entry for "ZapfDingbats" (without the
> space). When I add that, evince shows the scissors fine.
>

See also: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19128