That PDF uses the hebrew chars of the arial font, but the font is not embedded:
./utils/pdffonts -subst HW4.pdf name object ID substitute font substitute font file ------------------------------------ --------- ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ Courier 5 0 Nimbus Mono L /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n022003l.pfb Arial,Bold 8 0 Liberation Sans Bold /usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation/LiberationSans-Bold.ttf Calibri,Bold 10 0 DejaVu Sans Bold /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf Arial 12 0 Liberation Sans /usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation/LiberationSans-Regular.ttf Times-Roman 13 0 Nimbus Roman No9 L /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n021003l.pfb Times-Italic 14 0 Nimbus Roman No9 L Regular Italic /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n021023l.pfb Symbol 15 0 Symbol /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/Symbol.pfb Arial,Bold 20 0 Liberation Sans Bold /usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation/LiberationSans-Bold.ttf Therefore You need the unicode version of the arial font (and also arial bold) and configure fontconfig to use this/these font/s, or You should force the PDF generator to include the fonts! Poppler doesn't deliver any fonts! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485745 Title: Evince presents PDF with mis-rendered Hebrew To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evince/+bug/485745/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs