Bug 37292

Summary: Handle font problems better
Product: poppler Reporter: Orion Poplawski <orion>
Component: generalAssignee: poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Attachments: Problematic pdf

Description Orion Poplawski 2011-05-17 09:53:52 UTC
Created attachment 46832 [details]
Problematic pdf

The attached document apparently has some problems with the embedded Type 1C fonts in it.  With gs 9.02, it reports errors and replaces the problematic fonts with system fonts:

$ pdf2ps NovopashinMuriel2002_IsTheCriticalReynoldsNumberUniversal.pdf 
   **** Warning: can't process font stream, loading font by the name.
   **** Warning: can't process font stream, loading font by the name.

   **** This file had errors that were repaired or ignored.
   **** The file was produced by: 
   **** >>>> Mac OS X 10.6.7 Quartz PDFContext <<<<
   **** Please notify the author of the software that produced this
   **** file that it does not conform to Adobe's published PDF
   **** specification.

gs directly also reports:

Substituting font Times-Roman for XQAGXY+Times-Pandre-Light.
Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/9.02/Resource/Font/NimbusRomNo9L-Regu.
Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusRomNo9L-Regu.
Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/9.02/Resource/Font/NimbusRomNo9L-Regu.
Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusRomNo9L-Regu.
Querying operating system for font files...
Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021003l.pfb... 3700140 2347017 6809988 5252199 3 done.

The poppler pdftops output when printed produces the following error on the printer:

ERROR: invalidfont
OFFENDING COMMAND: definefont

STACK:

/Font
-dictionary-
/RDNCVK+RusTimes-Pandre-LightItalic

It would be great if poppler could detect the same issue and do the same font substitution.

$ pdffonts NovopashinMuriel2002_IsTheCriticalReynoldsNumberUniversal.pdfname                                                    type              emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
QGTTJK+Symbol                        TrueType          yes yes no      10  0
FKIRVC+Symbol                        TrueType          yes yes yes     11  0
TIZLRL+Times-Pandre-LightItalic      Type 1C           yes yes no      14  0
RDNCVK+RusTimes-Pandre-LightItalic   Type 1C           yes yes no       9  0
UJIXRV+Times-Roman                   TrueType          yes yes no       7  0
BQZNJF+Times-Italic                  TrueType          yes yes no       8  0
USEOII+Times-Bold                    TrueType          yes yes no      12  0
XQAGXY+Times-Pandre-Light            Type 1C           yes yes no      22  0
Comment 1 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-21 10:54:43 UTC
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