Bug 15109 - Bad kerning on some PDF using Evince, not in Adobe Reader
Summary: Bad kerning on some PDF using Evince, not in Adobe Reader
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: poppler
Classification: Unclassified
Component: cairo backend (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
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Assignee: poppler-bugs
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Reported: 2008-03-18 10:42 UTC by Pedro Villavicencio
Modified: 2008-05-02 09:49 UTC (History)
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Description Pedro Villavicencio 2008-03-18 10:42:59 UTC 
This report has been filed here:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/200310

"1. Go to http://www.asus-advantage.com/web/descargas/get_NB_pricelist.php
2. The above link downloads a PDF file from ASUS (sorry about the advertisement), called 200802_ES_NB_PVP.pdf.
3. Open the PDF file with Evince
4. Go to (for instance) page 3

You can see an obvious bad kerning in the text. If you open the same PDF file using Adobe Reader, the kerning is correct, and the font is different from the one used by Evince.

I attach two screenshots to illustrate the problem."

1- http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12530829/evince.png
2- http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12530830/adobe.png

file: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12724443/200802_ES_NB_PVP.pdf.zip

Thanks,
Comment 1 Juliusz Chroboczek 2008-05-02 09:49:17 UTC 
Sample document uses a large number of non-standard fonts that are not embedded.
It will only render correctly on a machine with the Adobe Font Folio CD installed.

The proper fix is to fire your graphic designer.

--Juliusz

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