Bug 10218

Summary:	Evince ignores font hinting settings
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Sebastien Bacher <seb128>
Component:	splash backend	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	mpsuzuki
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Sebastien Bacher 2007-03-07 14:24:07 UTC

That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/87230

"Binary package hint: evince

I specifically set my system to disable font hinting because I prefer the appearance.

However, Evince still insists on using hinting when rendering. As a result, I get particularly bad (worse than normal) text rendering with all documents. See attached screenshot for example.

Zooming in and out causes apparent font weight to increase and decrease by massive amounts. Worse still is that italicized text at the same zoom level appears thinner for Times New Roman. See screenshot for example. Notice also under point 4 the italic "zero" has its diagonal bar in the "z" missing. This is just another issue with font hinting, but illustrates the problem well.
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http://librarian.launchpad.net/6512242/hinting.png
Screenshot"

Comment 1 Marciano Siniscalchi 2007-03-20 08:36:23 UTC

I believe this is the same bug as #9862: Poppler (and xpdf before it) uses a hard-coded, compile-time check to determine whether or not to use hinting, and is this insensitive to runtime settings. 

I originally reported #9862 on Launchpad, and the kind of rendering in the above attachment looks sadly familiar... :-(

Comment 2 Alexander Jones 2007-06-15 16:17:20 UTC

Is this fixed?

Comment 3 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-21 10:36:55 UTC

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