Bug#904164: Text of some PDF invisible: some font thing failed

[Jason Crain]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 07:31:51PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Jason Crain schrieb am 21.07.2018 um 01:03:
> > What version of poppler and cairo are you using?
> 
> Currently installed are libpoppler74 (0.63.0-2) and libcairo2 (1.15.10-3).

That's weird because it's working fine for me using those versions.

How does it look if you run `pdftocairo -png in.pdf out` to convert to
png images? pdftocairo is in the poppler-utils package. Evince uses
poppler for PDF rendering so that should get the same result as Evince.

Is there some reason Evince would not be able to read font files, like
maybe you've moved them out of /usr/share/fonts?

AppArmor sometimes causes issues so try temporarily disabling apparmor
with `aa-disable /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.evince`. aa-disable is in the
apparmor-utils package.