I only know this: when I type a word containing “fi” in a Typewriter comment in Master PDF Editor using the font Noto Sans, I get something that looks like this: Noto Sans does not work in Master PDF Editor on my machine I don’t know whether to blame Master PDF Editor or the font or some strange interaction between the two. I don’t know exactly where the problem lies. It’s important to know this: I don’t know fonts. (I don’t know that it’s a font ligature problem, but it seems like a reasonable explanation.) After a few months of noticing this problem and working around it (by restricting myself to words without “fi” in them!), I finally figured out that this problem lies in the default font that Master PDF Editor uses for such annotations: “Noto Sans”. Ah, yes! I presume that this is a font ligature problem. It took me a few weeks to notice a pattern: it happened whenever I wrote a word that contained the sequence “fi”. Imagine my chagrin recently, when I noticed a font rendering problem when I added a text annotation to a document. It has the typical user experience quirks that one expects from Linux software, but it performs very well and has done everything I’ve needed it to do.
It seemed to have all the features I needed and I learned fairly quickly how to use it. When I learned about Master PDF Editor, I felt encouraged. Since PDFs lie at the center of my company’s record-keeping system, I needed a solid and quick-to-use alternative. When I switched from Mac OS to Pop!_OS, I worried about how I would replace the venerable PDF Pen. I infer that there is some font ligature rendering problem with the default font Noto Sans in Master PDF Editor. You know that you have this problem if you enter a Typewriter comment that contains the character sequence “fi”. I like “Inter”, but that font just happens to work.
Under the settings for Text, choose a different font.In the unnamed drop-down box, choose Typewriter.From the menu of option categories, choose Comments.(I see the same disfigured text when I view the document in Zathura.) Changing the default font is not obvious from the Settings UI, so do this: This isn’t just a rendering problem in the viewer, but a font problem in the document itself. If you use Master PDF Editor on Linux, then don’t use Noto Sans as the font for Typewriter comments/annotations, because the font will sometimes render incorrectly.
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