Poppler based pdf viewers don't seem to honor embedded fonts anymore?

I apologize if this thread is misplaced. I realize poppler is not in [testing], but since I ride [testing] and recently got the new xorg/mesa update that I believe may have indirectly prompted this breakage, I figured my thread would end up here anyway.
After a recent upgrade, libpoppler based pdf viewers don't seem to render pdfs with embedded fonts quite right anymore.
The last time I opened this pdf in evince was two or so weeks ago, and I just now noticed that evince has begun rendering it oddly. Here you can see some comparison screenshots between a ghostscript-based pdf reader (mupdf) and evince:
Screenshot 1,  Screenshot 2,  Screenshot 3,  Screenshot 4.
Unfortunately, I've been pulled away from my laptop for the last few weeks, and when I did an -Syyu recently, I had a fairly huge amount of packages to upgrade (making this issue even harder to debug ). If anyone wants to take a look at my pacman log, here's the log from the recent huge upgrade. And yes, I realize ghostscript, evince, poppler/poppler-glib and libspectre are in there.. but when I reverted to their original revisions from /var/cache/pacman/pkg, I still had the same symptoms.
Sorry if I've overlooked anything glaringly obvious. I'm sleep deprived at the moment... though, if anyone has any suggestions on where to proceed trying to debug this issue from here, I'd really appreciate it... and thanks for taking the time to read this.

jbsgi wrote:
Thank you for replying.
I'm fine with the reader's reader substituting Times for Times New Roman, Helvetica for Arial, etc. As you can see from the pub, precise typography isn't all that important.
But you have no way to ensure that even those fonts are available on the viewer’s computer. Even if they are, how do you know how the substitution will occur? If I just replace every glyph (letter, numeral, symbol, etc.) in one font with another, but leave the glyphs where they are I might make the text unreadable.
100 kb is a pitifully small threshold for saving a file for offline viewing. Unless this is meant to be read in Kazakhstan, then I’d ignore this arbitrary file size limit.
About the hyperlinks issue when distilling a PostScript file: there’s nothing you can do about that, since PostScript files do not support hyperlinks. But you can export a PDF with hyperlinks, then Distill a PostScript file. Open the exported PDF and use Document > Replace Pages. Replace all the pages in the open (exported) PDF with all the pages in the Distilled PDF. Hyperlinks will remain.

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