pdf hebrew chars are GIBRISH

[Kfir Lavi]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Kfir Lavi <lavi.kfir at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Meir Kriheli <mkriheli at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Kfir Lavi <lavi.kfir at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > The CPA of our company gave me the salary in pdf.
>> > It is done with SHIKLULIT LE HALONOT (שיקלולית לחלונות).
>> > The header font is showing ok, but the font inside the form,
>> > shows in GIBRISH.
>> > It seems like a mismatch of font?!
>> > I'm using evince.
>> > I have culmus fonts installed.
>> >
>> > output of pdffonts:
>> > kfir at goofy /tmp $ pdffonts 2011.08.pdf
>> > name                                 type              emb sub uni
>> object ID
>> > ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- ---
>> ---------
>> > Arial                                CID TrueType      no  no  yes
>> 6  0
>> > Arial,Bold                           CID TrueType      no  no  yes
>> 10  0
>> > Miriam                               CID TrueType      no  no  yes
>> 13  0
>> > David                                CID TrueType      no  no  yes
>> 16  0
>> > David,Bold                           CID TrueType      no  no  yes
>> 19  0
>> > MiriamFixed,Bold                     CID TrueType      no  no  yes
>> 22  0
>> >
>> > kfir at goofy /tmp $ pdfinfo !$
>> > pdfinfo 2011.08.pdf
>> > Creator:        pdfsam-console (Ver. 2.4.0e)
>> > Producer:       iText 2.1.7 by 1T3XT
>> > CreationDate:   Sun Sep 11 20:12:03 2011
>> > ModDate:        Sun Sep 11 20:12:03 2011
>> > Tagged:         no
>> > Pages:          1
>> > Encrypted:      no
>> > Page size:      595.274 x 841.888 pts (A4)
>> > File size:      25669 bytes
>> > Optimized:      no
>> > PDF version:    1.4
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Kfir
>>
>> Try checking the results of fc-match for each of fonts in the above
>> output of pdffonts
>>
>> Cheers
>> --
>> Meir
>>
> Here is the output:
> fc-match Arial:
> arial.ttf: "Arial" "Normal"
> fc-match Arial,Bold:
> arial.ttf: "Arial" "Normal"
> fc-match Miriam:
> Vera.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman"
> fc-match David:
> Vera.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman"
> fc-match David,Bold:
> Vera.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman"
> fc-match MiriamFixed,Bold:
> Vera.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman"
>
> So as we see it don't find David, Miriam...
>
> Regards,
> Kfir
>

It seems that "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman" is the default.
When I run fc-match, I just get "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman".

Kfir
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