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

[Thomas Johnsson <thomas skri net>]

On 2017-04-12 18:39, Jason Crain wrote:
> 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.
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> ... documents reallly should be using embedded fonts.

In principle I agree with you that the pdf world should strive towards 
that, but that is not the world we live in now, so does not help me if I 
e.g. get sent a document from a chinese customer.
So if there is a simpler solution than fixing a poppler/evice bug, e.g. 
installing missing fonts, I'd really like to know that.