Re: "Check mark" symbol missing using 'evince'?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

Am Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 09:11:20PM +0200 schrieb Rhialto:
> On Wed 06 Apr 2022 at 08:03:55 -0500, John D. Baker wrote:
> > Assuming the glyph is "ZaDb 1117 0 R", I don't know how to interpret
> > that.  Is that character code decimal, hexadecimal, octal?
> 
> The number is decimal, but "1117 0 R" is a reference to node number 1117
> of the object tree. Think of the R function as a Postscript function
> taking 2 parameters (and the second one is always 0) and returning an
> object reference. The object begins with "1117 0 obj" and ends with
> "endobj".

The second number is the generation number. It is normally 0, but when
using annotations or other annotations, it can be larger than 0.

Joerg