Bug#1111863: Evince shows squares instead of letters

Mauro Sacchetto mauro.sacchetto at gmail.com
Sat Aug 23 00:40:28 BST 2025


Package: evince

Version: 48.1-4

I remember a similar bug several years ago.

In recently installed Testing (Forky) with Cinnamon, using Evince the 
window titles, the menus and the PDF sidebar don't display the 
characters correctly, but only a series of squares.From the console:

===========================================================================

samiel at debian:~$ evince

(org.gnome.Evince:11038): Pango-WARNING **: 01:30:22.296: failed to 
create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 
'Noto Sans 9'

(org.gnome.Evince:11038): Pango-WARNING **: 01:30:22.296: font_face 
status is: <unknown error status>
===========================================================================

I'm not sure if this is a bug in the program...



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