Bug 17763

Summary:	special pronounciation characters not shown in PDF
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Paul van Erk <parena>
Component:	qt4 frontend	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	This is the original document. Works in KDE3 kpdf, Google docs, ghostscript and Acrobat Reader (Windows). A screenshot of how it should be (taken from kpdf)

Description Paul van Erk 2008-09-25 00:30:46 UTC

Created attachment 19178 [details]
This is the original document. Works in KDE3 kpdf, Google docs, ghostscript and Acrobat Reader (Windows). 

My wife recently started a study English Philology. When opening a certain PDF in okular, she was missing characters. The character in question looks like a question mark, but without space between the top part and the dot (will attach files). On the same system, kpdf of KDE3.5 (based on XPDF itself, I believe) shows the characters without problem (so it's not a font problem). Also, uploading the PDF to Google Docs, you can see the characters. I'd rather not install kpdf or acrobat reader on her notebook, due to all the dependencies (it's a KDE4 only notebook now). Please check the attachments (original PDF and screenshot).

btw, I first sent this bug to bugs.kde.org and they acknowledged the bug but claim it to be a poppler bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171365

Comment 1 Paul van Erk 2008-09-25 00:32:17 UTC

Created attachment 19179 [details]
A screenshot of how it should be (taken from kpdf)

Here you see the 'sort of question mark without a space'. This is how okular should show the character, just like kpdf, Google docs, ghostscript and Acrobat Reader (Windows) do.

Comment 2 Albert Astals Cid 2008-09-25 00:43:05 UTC

Will be fixed in poppler >= 0.9.3

Thanks for the report

Comment 3 Paul van Erk 2008-09-25 01:54:40 UTC

Wow that was fast... :D Great, looking forward to enjoying better PDF's thanks to 0.10. Hopefulle the folks at openSUSE will put it in soon after your release. :) Thanks!

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