Bug 10845

Summary:	Tibetan characters not rendered correctly
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Mildred <silkensedai>
Component:	general	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Screenshoot of xpdf and konqueror The PDF file

Description Mildred 2007-05-03 04:12:39 UTC

Hi,

I'm creating documents that include tibetan characters but if I use xpdf or evince (that seems both to use poppler), the rendered characters are not drawn correctly.

Note that KDe applications render those characters correctly (except KPDF and KGhostView)

I'll attach an example and a screenshoot of konqueror and xpdf. You can find the letter represented on the Internet, for example : http://www.sakya.com.au/events/images/hung.jpg

Comment 1 Mildred 2007-05-03 04:13:23 UTC

Created attachment 9848 [details]
Screenshoot of xpdf and konqueror

Comment 2 Mildred 2007-05-03 04:14:28 UTC

Created attachment 9849 [details]
The PDF file

And the tibetan character itself is: ཧཱུྂ༔

Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2007-05-03 10:47:36 UTC

I could not find any pdf viewer that shows the symbol you point in comment #0, all pdf viewers i have show the symbol in comment #1, are you sure it's not the pdf that is wrongly created?

Comment 4 Mildred 2007-05-03 14:57:29 UTC

I don't think so.
I used Apache FOP to create the PDF, maybe there is a bug in FOP.

If you need a tibetan font, there is one called "TibetanMachineUni" avaible in the tools section of the website <http://www.thdl.org/>

...

Well, after generating a PDF file with OpenOffice, it is shown correctly. Apparently t is a FOP bug. I don't really understand why because I thought is was up to the PDF reader to correctly display letters. But apparently this work is done by the PDf writer.

So you're right. Not poppler fault. Excuse me for that.

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