Bug 39396

Summary: Summation and product symbol not displaying properly
Product: poppler Reporter: Damian <damian.only>
Component: generalAssignee: poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: FreeBSD   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments: Two pdf's: one is displayed correctly, the other is not.
Document that shows the problem.

Description Damian 2011-07-20 00:49:57 UTC
Created attachment 49328 [details]
Two pdf's: one is displayed correctly, the other is not.

The summation and product symbols, which are produced using the standard LaTex macros \sum and \prod, are not displayed correctly.

I attach two pdf's: one of them is displays the symbols correctly, whereas the other shows the problem.
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2011-07-20 04:45:59 UTC
Acrobat Reader displays the symbols wrong too, so i think the PDF is badly generated. Closing the bug.
Comment 2 Damian 2011-07-21 07:30:53 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Acrobat Reader displays the symbols wrong too, so i think the PDF is badly
> generated. Closing the bug.
I generated the pdf pages using evince, and that must be the reason why Acroread also displays the wrong symbols.

Please take a look at the second attachment (full pdf). Acroread displays the correct symbols whereas evince is displaying them wrong.
Comment 3 Damian 2011-07-21 07:32:13 UTC
Created attachment 49383 [details]
Document that shows the problem.

Take a look at the symbols in the 4th line of property 1 of page 9. Acrobat reader displays the correct symbols, whereas evince does not.
Comment 4 Albert Astals Cid 2011-07-21 09:01:00 UTC
Works for me, if it does not work for you it's because the PDF is using the Symbol font and it is not embedding it thus we query your computer for a font named Symbol, you should make sure a proper replacement is given for it. http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/poppler has some hints on how to do it
Comment 5 Damian 2011-07-22 02:23:52 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> Works for me, if it does not work for you it's because the PDF is using the
> Symbol font and it is not embedding it thus we query your computer for a font
> named Symbol, you should make sure a proper replacement is given for it.
> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/poppler has some hints on how to do it

I understand. Sorry for my confusion and thanks for your support.

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