Bug 25244

Summary:	Bad rendering of standard fonts
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Dmytro Pukha <dmytro.pukha>
Component:	cairo backend	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	dmytro.pukha
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	PDF file excerpt and results of rendering

Description Dmytro Pukha 2009-11-23 10:31:33 UTC

Viewing a PDF file in Evince v2.28.1 (libpoppler v0.12.0) and Acrobat Reader 9.2 delivers different results in font rendering. Although the document uses only standard not-embedded fonts (Times New Roman, CourierNew and Arial), the resulting glyphs look in Evince as if they were not processed by an anti-aliasing filter whereas the same text blocks in Adobe Acrobat are much more readable (check the attached zip archive).

I'm wondering if there is an issue with non-native ttf-mscorefonts 3.0 package installed in my Ubuntu 9.10 or a poppler bug?

Comment 1 Dmytro Pukha 2009-11-23 10:33:17 UTC

Created attachment 31414 [details]
PDF file excerpt and results of rendering

Comment 2 Albert Astals Cid 2009-11-23 13:09:59 UTC

splash backend renders it much better than cairo backend, at least here

Comment 3 Dmytro Pukha 2009-11-23 13:19:54 UTC

Is there any option to choose rendering backend for poppler to be used by Evince?

Comment 4 Carlos Garcia Campos 2009-11-25 03:11:02 UTC

This is a duplicate of bug #5589, I'm working on fixing it in poppler until it's finally fixed in pixman. 

Thanks for reporting. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 5589 ***

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