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[pdfcomment] the font option produces PDFs that only render correctly in Adobe Acrobat, not Poppler (xpdf, evince, okular)
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This is the sample code (for LuaTeX or XeTeX):
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{pdfcomment}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
%\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage[svgnames,rgb]{xcolor}
\usepackage[absolute]{textpos}
\usepackage{amssymb,amsmath,array,bm}
\usepackage{courier}
\usepackage{calligra,mathptmx,helvet,concmath}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{fontspec} % used to access system fonts like Lucida Fax
\begin{document}
\defineavatar{standard}{height=10mm,width=15cm,type=freetext,color=white,fontsize=20pt,fontcolor=blue}%,voffset=-4.8cm,hoffset=-3.2cm}%
\noindent%
Fonts from the pdfcomment example document:\\[10mm]
\pdffreetextcomment[avatar=standard]{This font is Helvetica (the default)}\\[6mm]
\pdffreetextcomment[avatar=standard,font=LucidaConsole]{This font is LucidaConsole}\\[6mm]
\pdffreetextcomment[avatar=standard,font=Georgia]{This font is Georgia}\\[6mm]
\pdffreetextcomment[avatar=standard,font=PalatinoLinotype]{This font is PalatinoLinotype}\\[6mm]
Fonts considered among the ``14 standard fonts'':\\[10mm]
\pdffreetextcomment[avatar=standard,font=TiRo]{This font is Times-Roman (TiRo)}\\[6mm]
\pdffreetextcomment[avatar=standard,font=Helv]{This font is Helvetica (Helv)}\\[6mm]
\pdffreetextcomment[avatar=standard,font=Cour]{This font is Courier (Cour)}\\[6mm]
\pdffreetextcomment[avatar=standard,font=ZaDb]{This font is ZapfDingbats (ZaDb)}\\[6mm]
\pdffreetextcomment[avatar=standard,font=Symb]{This font is Symbol (Symb)}\\[6mm]
Ad-hoc selection:\\[10mm]
\pdffreetextcomment[avatar=standard,font=lmodern]{This font is Latin Modern}\\[6mm]
\pdffreetextcomment[avatar=standard,font=textcomp]{This font is textcomp}\\[6mm]
\pdffreetextcomment[avatar=standard,font=bogus]{This font is bogus (non-existent yet accepted!)}\\[6mm]
\pdffreetextcomment[avatar=standard,font={Lucida Fax}]{This font is Lucida Fax from fontspec}\\[6mm]
\pdffreetextcomment[avatar=standard,font=calligra]{This font is Calligra}\\[6mm]
\end{document}
The first question is what can be done to make the fonts render correctly in Poppler-based PDF viewers?
The other question: is Poppler the only game in the FOSS town? Or is there a FOSS alternative?
#askfedi #latex
After more investigation, muPDF is a FOSS PDF viewer that does not use Poppler libs. I’m told it renders the standard fonts but not the others.
Acrobat is perhaps the only PDF viewer that displays callouts. And the pdfcomment package has a serious defect that has a callout strike through the page.
So much for PDFs being “portable”.