Bug 13514

Summary:	evince "Mismatch between font type and embedded font file" with certain PDFs
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Adam Monsen <haircut>
Component:	general	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	enrico-minack
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	The pdf with the problem

Description Adam Monsen 2007-12-04 11:46:30 UTC

Some PDF files display small boxes where characters should be. "Mismatch between font type and embedded font file" is printed to standard error 49 times when running evince on "a.pdf" (link below) from the console. Problem also seen using xpdf, kpdf. Proprietary Acrobat reader is able to view PDF without issues.

PDF in question: http://filebin.ca/yohkw/a.pdf

Screenshots and more descriptive info:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3890791#post3890791

I'm on Ubuntu 7.10.

poppler-utils: 0.6-0ubuntu2.1
evince: 2.20.1-0ubuntu1

Hope this helps,
-Adam

Comment 1 Adam Monsen 2007-12-04 11:48:44 UTC

hugmenot on ubuntuforums.org seems to think this is a font misidentification problem:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3891147&postcount=5

Comment 2 Albert Astals Cid 2007-12-05 10:47:53 UTC

File is unacessible

Comment 3 Adam Monsen 2007-12-05 10:53:07 UTC

Here's a link to the PDF on a different host:
http://adammonsen.com/tmp/a.pdf

Comment 4 Albert Astals Cid 2007-12-05 11:02:57 UTC

Created attachment 12963 [details]
The pdf with the problem

Comment 5 Albert Astals Cid 2007-12-05 11:12:35 UTC

Whatever is generating that pdf is doing it wrong, it puts FontFile in the font descriptor of a truetype font while it should be FontFile2 as FontFile is specifically for Type1 fonts. Open a bug report against them.

Comment 6 Enrico Minack 2007-12-16 23:35:36 UTC

But how come that Adobe can display the PDF? Is it because it is more robust against such problems? Shouldn't Evince be the same robust to make users happy?

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