[poppler] ZapfDingbats cannot be found on Windows

Jeroen Ooms jeroen at berkeley.edu
Thu Sep 7 11:01:16 UTC 2017


On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Not poppler, we're not in the font business.

Perhaps poppler could at least provide an API for applications to ship
their own copy of d050000l.pfb? Poppler is one of the few (only?) pdf
readers that does not natively support the pdf base 14 standard fonts
which is a recurring source of problems.


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