Bug 24701

Summary:	Bitmap fonts don't look as good as xpdf / adobe reader
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Keith Curtis <keithcu>
Component:	cairo backend	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	poppler rendering xpdf renderer

Description Keith Curtis 2009-10-23 10:03:14 UTC

I was going to read this book:
http://mises.org/etexts/bureaucracy.pdf

But trying to read it on screen is very difficult because it is a bitmap font and looks terrible. 

I opened it in xpdf and adobe reader it looks much better.

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2009-10-23 10:07:53 UTC

Can you add screenshots of what you get with the three readers, please?

Comment 2 Keith Curtis 2009-10-23 10:12:30 UTC

Created attachment 30642 [details]
poppler rendering

default renderer

Comment 3 Keith Curtis 2009-10-23 10:13:03 UTC

Created attachment 30643 [details]
xpdf renderer

xpdf renderer

Comment 4 Keith Curtis 2009-10-23 10:15:19 UTC

I added the default Ubuntu renderer and the xpdf renderer. 

I didn't include a screenshot of the adobe reader because it looks just like the xpdf.

Comment 5 Albert Astals Cid 2009-10-23 10:23:03 UTC

Seems it's a cairo backend problem, at least i can see a very noticeable different between splash and cairo rendering here

Comment 6 Keith Curtis 2009-10-23 10:30:48 UTC

Note: the differences may seem subtle but they are not. I tried reading several pages and I got tired because I had to spend my energy just decoding the letters rather than focusing on the words.

Comment 7 Carlos Garcia Campos 2010-01-26 10:39:50 UTC

It works for me now, it looks like a duplicate of bug #5589. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 5589 ***

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