Description of problem: As an example, please see this PDF: http://www.ualberta.ca/~ygu/publications/christian_gji.pdf It uses several serif fonts that are not embedded: TimesNewRomanPS TimesNewRomanPS-Italic TimesNewRomanPS-Bold TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalic TimesNRMT-SemiBold When I view it in Firefox's pdf.js, the title and headings are serif, but when I view it in evince, the title and headings are sans-serif. I know pdf.js is not a perfect renderer, but at least it picks the right font. I filed this report under fontconfig because it is returning the wrong font: $ fc-match TimesNewRomanPS DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" $ fc-match TimesNewRomanPS-Italic DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" $ fc-match TimesNewRomanPS-Bold DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" $ fc-match TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalic DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" $ fc-match TimesNRMT-SemiBold DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" Using similar fonts nets the correct result: $ fc-match TimesNewRoman LiberationSerif-Regular.ttf: "Liberation Serif" "Regular" $ fc-match Times n021003l.pfb: "Nimbus Roman No9 L" "Regular" I am not sure of the difference here, but at least the results are serif. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fontconfig-2.10.2-2.fc18.x86_64 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download above PDF. 2. Open in Firefox's pdf.js 3. Open in evince Actual results: Differing fonts for title and headings. Expected results: Same fonts for title and headings.
Where is that font coming from? why the later case works is we have an alias to recognize that Times New Roman is a serif. you need to have similar things for your fonts.
The font comes from the referenced PDF. While I linked to the author's site, the same thing occurs with the PDF from the journal, so apparently the journal is using those fonts at some point. I have no control over this.
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liberation* and other packages metric-compatible with times new roman probably need to alias those names too in their fontconfig rules