Works for me, which freetype are you using? Can you attach a screenshot and the output of okular in the shell if any?

okular prints some errors, see below.
Not sure what got broken.

---- error log ----
okular(2264)/kdeui (KIconLoader) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: Failed to establish shared memory mapping, will fallback to private memory -- memory usage will increase 
okular(2264)/kdeui (KIconLoader) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: Failed to establish shared memory mapping, will fallback to private memory -- memory usage will increase 
okular(2264)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
okular(2264)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
okular(2264)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
Error: Found a bad table definition on true type definition, trying to continue... 
Error: Found a bad table definition on true type definition, trying to continue... 
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'TT0W700S+Courier-New' 
Error: Found a bad table definition on true type definition, trying to continue... 
Error: Found a bad table definition on true type definition, trying to continue... 
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'TT0W700S+Courier-New' 
Error: Found a bad table definition on true type definition, trying to continue... 
Error: Found a bad table definition on true type definition, trying to continue...

You didn't answer the freetype version question. Seems very much like and old freetype to me

Sorry I missed your question.

freetype2-2.4.2

Can you update your poppler to something newer than that old version?

Is it possible that okular doesn't use poppler at all now?
shared poppler lib isn't linked to okular. And it's size is only 65KB so no static link either.

$ ldd /usr/local/kde4/bin/okular 
/usr/local/kde4/bin/okular:
        libkparts.so.5 => /usr/local/kde4/lib/libkparts.so.5 (0x800654000)
        libkio.so.7 => /usr/local/kde4/lib/libkio.so.7 (0x8007c8000)
        libQtNetwork.so.4 => /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtNetwork.so.4 (0x800c4c000)
        libQtXml.so.4 => /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtXml.so.4 (0x800ea2000)
        libnepomuk.so.5 => /usr/local/kde4/lib/libnepomuk.so.5 (0x800fed000)
        libkdeui.so.7 => /usr/local/kde4/lib/libkdeui.so.7 (0x8011a9000)
        libQtGui.so.4 => /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 (0x8017d5000)
        libQtSvg.so.4 => /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtSvg.so.4 (0x802441000)
        libkdecore.so.7 => /usr/local/kde4/lib/libkdecore.so.7 (0x8025a5000)
        libQtCore.so.4 => /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtCore.so.4 (0x802a38000)
        libQtDBus.so.4 => /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtDBus.so.4 (0x802ded000)
        libsoprano.so.4 => /usr/local/lib/libsoprano.so.4 (0x802f7b000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x803182000)
        libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x803392000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x8034b2000)
        libthr.so.3 => /lib/libthr.so.3 (0x8035c0000)
        libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x8036d9000)
        libz.so.5 => /lib/libz.so.5 (0x80391a000)
        libstreamanalyzer.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libstreamanalyzer.so.0 (0x803a2f000)
        libstreams.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libstreams.so.0 (0x803bd2000)
        libsolid.so.5 => /usr/local/kde4/lib/libsolid.so.5 (0x803d25000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x803edb000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x803fe3000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x8040fd000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x80432c000)
        libXft.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x80443d000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x804550000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x804653000)
        libXpm.so.4 => /usr/local/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x804758000)
        libXrender.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x804869000)
        libsopranoclient.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libsopranoclient.so.1 (0x804972000)
        libdbusmenu-qt.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libdbusmenu-qt.so.2 (0x804acd000)
        libXtst.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXtst.so.6 (0x804bfa000)
        libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x804d00000)
        libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0x804e0a000)
        libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0x804f0f000)
        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x805013000)
        libpng.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.6 (0x8051e4000)
        libfreetype.so.9 => /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.9 (0x80530a000)
        libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x80548c000)
        libbz2.so.4 => /usr/lib/libbz2.so.4 (0x8055be000)
        liblzma.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/liblzma.so.0 (0x8056ce000)
        libintl.so.9 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9 (0x8057ee000)
        libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x8058f7000)
        libxml2.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.5 (0x805af1000)
        libxcb.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libxcb.so.2 (0x805d3c000)
        libpthread-stubs.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libpthread-stubs.so.0 (0x805e56000)
        librpcsvc.so.5 => /usr/lib/librpcsvc.so.5 (0x805f57000)
        libXi.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x806060000)
        libpcre.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0 (0x80616e000)
        libexpat.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.6 (0x8062a4000)

Disregard my previous message. Looks like libpoppler is loaded dynamically since when I delete the lib file okular fails with the message.

No, it's not too easy to update to the later version for me. Need to rebuild many things depending on it. Will do this once I have an opportunity.

I am on FreeBSD-8.1 -- all comes from ports

Based on FreeBSD feedback update in poppler is coming soon with the gnome update currently being tested.
So I will wait until then and then revisit this PR.

I've commited to poppler 0.15.1 a minor fix that makes this pdf render correctly in okular, if you upgrade to 0.15.1 or newer and it still fails, please reopne the bug.