transferring bug from gnome bugzilla, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624773 when viewing the documents http://www.nesteq.net/assets/dl/dsheets/datasheet_asm_xzero_eng.pdf http://www.nesteq.net/assets/dl/manuals/asm_xzero_manual_revision_1_5.pdf the text in the tables is not shown. it shows ok in acroread. i get lots of errors like this: Error: Missing language pack for 'Adobe-Japan1' mapping Error: Unknown font tag 'C0_0' Error (4356): No font in show/space Error (4422): No font in show/space Error (4475): No font in show Error (4536): No font in show/space Error: Missing language pack for 'Adobe-Japan1' mapping Error: Unknown font tag 'C0_0' Error (4356): No font in show/space Error (4422): No font in show/space Error (4475): No font in show Error (4536): No font in show/space Error: Missing language pack for 'Adobe-Japan1' mapping Error: Unknown font tag 'C0_0' Error (4356): No font in show/space Error (4422): No font in show/space Error (4475): No font in show Error (4536): No font in show/space Error: Missing language pack for 'Adobe-Japan1' mapping Error: Missing language pack for 'Adobe-Japan1' mapping Error: Missing language pack for 'Adobe-Japan1' mapping Error: Missing language pack for 'Adobe-Japan1' mapping Error: Unknown font tag 'C0_0' Error (2004149): No font in show Error (2004194): No font in show/space Error (2004233): No font in show Error (2004249): No font in show Error: Unknown font tag 'C0_1' looks similar to Bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166665 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2984 but still present in evince 2.30.3, with poppler/cairo 0.14.1 in ubuntu 10.10dev also reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/evince/+bug/470157 , which has screen shots comparing evince and acroread.
Install poppler-data and reopen the bug if after doing so you still miss characters.
indeed that fixes it. would it be possible for evince to detect the error, and alert the user to install the package?
Not at the moment, that would need some code in poppler core
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