Bug 17763 - special pronounciation characters not shown in PDF
Summary: special pronounciation characters not shown in PDF
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: poppler
Classification: Unclassified
Component: qt4 frontend (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
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Assignee: poppler-bugs
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Reported: 2008-09-25 00:30 UTC by Paul van Erk
Modified: 2008-09-25 01:54 UTC (History)
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This is the original document. Works in KDE3 kpdf, Google docs, ghostscript and Acrobat Reader (Windows). (16.26 KB, application/pdf)
2008-09-25 00:30 UTC, Paul van Erk
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A screenshot of how it should be (taken from kpdf) (4.82 KB, image/jpeg)
2008-09-25 00:32 UTC, Paul van Erk
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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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