[poppler] ZapfDingbats cannot be found on Windows

[Jeroen Ooms]

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/09/2017 21:03, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>>
>> ./GlobalParamsWin.cc:102:    {"ZapfDingbats",          "d050000l.pfb",
>> "wingding.ttf", gTrue},
>>
>> This is the substitution table, i guess those files are not available on a
>> moderm Windows?
>
>
> I expect wingding.ttf is normally available; but it isn't a suitable
> substitute for ZapfDingbats, as it has a totally different repertoire of
> symbols.
>
> The solution would be to ensure d050000l.pfb is available, but whose
> responsibility should that be -- the poppler library, the client application
> that uses poppler, or the individual end user?

How do other pdf readers solve this? The same pdf renders OK using
e.g. chrome and or firefox on the same machine.

FYI here is the implementation from pdf.js:
https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/pull/5251/files