I've found out why poppler-data is not installed by default. It's in multiverse because it's non-free.
>From comment 15 in bug #458288: I know, it's in multiverse since it includes copyrighted (and patent pending) technologies by Adobe. However, this seems like good news in the right direction from Adobe: http://lwn.net/Articles/354360/ -- Evince fails to read the fontspec.pdf file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502084 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to poppler in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs