This PDF file: http://white.stanford.edu/~brian/scielab/scielab3/scielab3.pdf renders correctly in evince 2.32.0 with cairo 1.10. With cairo 1.12.0, the text is illegible.
The culprit is a user-font with a garbage font metric: font_scale=(0.120000x0.120000), ascent=1.000000, descent=0.000000, height=1.000000, max_x=1.000000, max_y=0.000000
The font metrics returned by poppler look correct to me. They are all similar to: x_scale: 0.120000 y_scale: -0.120000 x_bearing: 4.000000 y_bearing: 0.000000 width: 79.000000 height: 85.000000 x_advance: 88.000000 y_advance: 0.000000 x_scale: 0.120000 y_scale: -0.120000 x_bearing: 6.000000 y_bearing: -2.000000 width: 52.000000 height: 86.000000 x_advance: 65.000000 y_advance: 0.000000 x_scale: 0.120000 y_scale: -0.120000 x_bearing: 5.000000 y_bearing: 0.000000 width: 68.000000 height: 82.000000 x_advance: 80.000000 y_advance: 0.000000 x_scale: 0.120000 y_scale: -0.120000 x_bearing: 4.000000 y_bearing: 0.000000 width: 76.000000 height: 81.000000 x_advance: 85.000000 y_advance: 0.000000 The problem also occurs with the PS output. I compared the PS output between 1.10.2 and 1.12.0. The fonts are all the same - same metrics, same image data. The difference is that in the page content there is a 1 point high clip before each show glyphs. eg 97 666 1 -1 re W n <---- here 0 g BT 0.12 0 0 -0.12 97.08 665.22 Tm /f-0-0 1 Tf <00>Tj ET Q q 113 666 8 -1 re W n <---- here 0 g BT 0.12 0 0 -0.12 112.32 665.22 Tm /f-0-0 1 Tf <0102>Tj ET Q q 138 666 26 -1 re W n <---- here 0 g BT 0.12 0 0 -0.12 137.88 665.22 Tm /f-0-0 1 Tf <03040005>Tj ET This is not present in the 1.10.2 PS output. When I remove these lines the file renders correctly. git bisect tells me the offending cairo commit is: commit b132fae5e843c329d1414d1a65b2e8d66b99852f Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Date: Thu Jul 14 21:19:54 2011 +0100 clip: Rudimentary support for clip-polygon extraction Poppler is not generating the clips before each showing glyph. So even if the clip boxes were the correct size they still should not appear in the PS output.
However the metrics feed into cairo are incorrect. Check the user_font->init().
Fixed with this commit: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=f1e621adbbb74ec709022b2a31195331651c83fa
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