On 12/04/13 19:59, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/04/13 19:16, Tim wrote: >> Allegedly, on or about 04 December 2013, Ed Greshko sent: >>> The fact that it fails with the google-croscore-symbolneu-fonts >>> package as well would indicate that it isn't a font file issue. In >>> fact, if you use something such as the Gnome Character Map you'd see >>> that the character displays properly in that app no matter which font >>> you select. >> What about other PDF rendering applications? >> > You would have to ask that question and screw things up.... :-) > > okular also exhibits the same failure. The dreaded acroread does not. xpdf also does not exhibit a failure. > > lsof shows xpdf using > > /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/s050000l.pfb and /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021003l.pfb > > While acroread appears to be using only /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf > > This is on F19. > > Maybe an ah ha moment. Selecting Symbol Neu font in LibreOffice Word and typing ∆ results in an empty square being displayed. This would seem to indicate that Symbol Neu doesn't have the glyph for U+2206 and somehow there is a problem when a substitute font is chosen. -- Getting tired of non-Fedora discussions and self-serving posts -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org