Bug 94837

Summary:	PDF made with Nitro Pro 8 and Hebrew text rendered incorrectly
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Shimi Chen <shimi.chen>
Component:	general	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Example pdf file that does not display properly with poppler, but does with acroread Correctly rendered file, after being opened with Adobe reader and printed using cups-pdf

Description Shimi Chen 2016-04-06 08:42:34 UTC

Created attachment 122753 [details]
Example pdf file that does not display properly with poppler, but does with acroread

In a course I'm taking, the lecturer uses Nitro Pro 8 to publish his PowerPoint slides as pdf. These do not render correctly in poppler.
I tested with:
*Okular
*Evince
*pdftocairo -png
*pdftoppm -png

I'm using Arch Linux, with poppler version 0.41.

The files render correctly in Adobe Reader 9.5.5 (installed from here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/acroread/). If I open the file with Adobe Reader and use cups-pdf to print it, the resulting pdf  does render correctly in poppler.

The issue seems to be exclusive to slides with Hebrew text.

Comment 1 Shimi Chen 2016-04-06 08:44:13 UTC

Created attachment 122754 [details]
Correctly rendered file, after being opened with Adobe reader and printed using cups-pdf

Comment 2 Jason Crain 2016-04-08 05:19:54 UTC

This document does not embed fonts and when a substitute font is chosen, poppler's probably not going to get a font that has Hebrew characters.  The second document works because the fonts are embedded.  It's the same problem as bug 93299.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 93299 ***

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