| Summary: | PDF characters are distorted | ||
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| Product: | poppler | Reporter: | idohlp2 |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86-64 (AMD64) | ||
| OS: | Linux (All) | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
| Attachments: |
offending pdf
XPDF output GV output ACROREAD output |
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Created attachment 50630 [details]
XPDF output
Created attachment 50631 [details]
GV output
Possibly something wrong in the fonts in that document. Using acroread, Selecting File->Properties looks OK until you hit the font tab. Then acroread asserts / dies... (In reply to comment #3) > Possibly something wrong in the fonts in that document. > > Using acroread, Selecting File->Properties looks OK until you hit the font tab. > Then acroread asserts / dies... Works for me. Seems to be an issue with acroread on some 64-bit distros. On Ubuntu it is this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acroread/+bug/783207 This fix in comment 4 fixed the crash for me. Created attachment 50632 [details]
ACROREAD output
Acroread didn't crashed for me. I attached a screen capture. It also print the document correctly. The distorted lines are in the fonts:
1st line - TimesNewRomanPSMT
3rd line - Arial-BoldMT
The output of 'pdffonts t1.pdf' (t1.pdf is the offending document) is:
ido@laptop:~/Shared-vbox$ pdffonts t1.pdf
name type emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
TimesNewRomanPSMT TrueType no no no 6 0
MVTCVM+ArialUnicodeMS TrueType yes yes yes 10 0
Arial-BoldMT TrueType no no no 12 0
WVRSVG+Calibri TrueType yes yes yes 16 0
maybe it has something to do with that 'no no no' line? I don't understand its meaning.
It means the fonts are not embedded in the PDF file, and as they are most probably not installed in the system, we have to resort to using a substitute, and the results are not good, there is not much we can do, you can install the font or configure fontconfig to give it a nicer substitute, but that is all on your local side so I am going to close the bug. |
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Created attachment 50629 [details] offending pdf