Re: [evince] evince does not show chinese bold or italic

[Jason Crain <jason aquaticape us>]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 05:09:05PM +0200, Thomas Johnsson wrote:
> Acrobat Reader, and also Firefox built-in pdf reader, displays it correctly,
> so no fontembedding should be needed.
> I was under the impression that for the CJK fonts, bold (and italic) was
> synthesized from the normal font,
> and that Evince (or Poppler really, I guess) fails to do so. Or maybe that
> the dash in STSong-Light is mistaken for the "bold separator" etc.

I don't think that poppler tries to synthesize font styles, it just
depends on fontconfig to find an appropriate font.  Poppler could be
doing a better job, so feel free to open a bug report at
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=poppler.  It might
not be a high priority though, since documents really should be using
embedded fonts.