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

[RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, John D. Baker wrote:

> Since the two "No Name" fonts in the example document get substituted
> with "Bitstream Vera Sans" and one of those fonts claims have an encoding
> of "ZapfDingbats", it would seem that 'fontconfig' is substituting the
> wrong font, although I don't know what the right font would be.

Try using DejaVu instead of Vera:

1. Install the dejavu font.

2. cp /etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/.

3. diff -u diff -u 60-latin.conf{.orig,}
--- 60-latin.conf.orig	2021-09-23 10:13:28.000000000 +0000
+++ 60-latin.conf	2022-04-06 20:21:50.888359000 +0000
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 	<alias>
 		<family>serif</family>
 		<prefer>
-			<family>Bitstream Vera Serif</family>
 			<family>DejaVu Serif</family>
+			<family>Bitstream Vera Serif</family>
 			<family>Times New Roman</family>
 			<family>Thorndale AMT</family>
 			<family>Luxi Serif</family>
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
 	<alias>
 		<family>sans-serif</family>
 		<prefer>
-			<family>Bitstream Vera Sans</family>
 			<family>DejaVu Sans</family>
+			<family>Bitstream Vera Sans</family>
 			<family>Verdana</family>
 			<family>Arial</family>
 			<family>Albany AMT</family>
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@
 	<alias>
 		<family>monospace</family>
 		<prefer>
-			<family>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</family>
 			<family>DejaVu Sans Mono</family>
+			<family>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</family>
 			<family>Inconsolata</family>
 			<family>Andale Mono</family>
 			<family>Courier New</family>
---END---

With this, a sample pdf with `radio checkboxes' show a "dot" when selected
instead of a hollow square. (NetBSD 9.2; binary evince pkg from 2021Q4.)

Hope this helps.

-RVP