I have got a number of pdf documents (bank account statements), where I regularly need to search for certain kinds of transaction by keyword. Recently I observed that with Acrobat 9 (a very old version) I can do so, however, with current Evince 3.10.3 searching does not work.
I looked up the document properties and found that those pdf documents have two fonts ArialMT and Arial BoldMT. After I installed ttf-mscorefonts-installer I noticed that Acrobat leaves the fonts, whereas Evince replaces them by DejaVu Sans (/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf) and
Arial Negrata (/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial_Bold.ttf), respectively.
So, even if the pdf documents, when opened in Evince, have got two well-defined fonts, my search by keyword results in "not found".
I would like to understand:
- why Evince cannot find what Acrobat can find, and
- if that is a matter of configuration or an an Evince bug.
