That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/31596 "Evince doesn't display my PDF's properly (anymore, works fine in Breezy), the text is very difficult to read, horrible. I tried with Gpdf, and the text looks normal/correct. I attached a screenshot for a side by side comparison (Gpdf on top, Evince at the bottom). http://librarian.launchpad.net/1573411/Screenshot.png * Screenshot Trying again, looks like the first attachement doesn't quite work, I can't click on it somehow... http://librarian.launchpad.net/1573415/svn-book.pdf * The PDF in question Here is the PDF..."
The pdf gives a http error, can you please attach it to the bug?
This looks like a font substitution problem
the URL works fine from here, what is your issue exactly?
launchpad was down when albert tried it
what version of poppler? and are you using the cairo backend?
It works fine for me. Can you try running poppler's pdffonts on the pdf with this patch applied: http://people.freedesktop.org/~jrmuizel/pdffonts.patch
Ubuntu uses evince and poppler 0.5 (with some of the CVS changes for #4030,#5758) at the moment with splash $ pdffonts svn-book.pdf name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- --------- new name: Helvetica-Bold Helvetica-Bold Type 1 no no no 3608 0 file: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraBd.ttf new name: Courier-Oblique Courier-Oblique Type 1 no no no 3607 0 file: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraMoIt.ttf new name: Helvetica Helvetica Type 1 no no no 3609 0 file: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf new name: Courier Courier Type 1 no no no 3610 0 file: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraMono.ttf new name: Times-Bold Times-Bold Type 1 no no no 3611 0 file: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraSeBd.ttf new name: Times-Italic Times-Italic Type 1 no no no 3612 0 file: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraSe.ttf new name: Times-Roman Times-Roman Type 1 no no no 3613 0 file: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraSe.ttf new name: Courier-Bold Courier-Bold Type 1 no no no 3614 0 file: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraMoBd.ttf
What does fc-match Helvetica-Bold returns in your computer?
Without "ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-dejavu" installed the pdf is fine $ fc-match Helvetica-Bold helvR12.pcf.gz: "Helvetica" "Regular"
Closing the bug because what we do is as fontconfig what font is better to handle Helvetica Bold and in [K]Ubuntu it answers /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraBd.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraBI.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraIt.ttf /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019004l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019044l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019003l.pfb ..... lots more of fonts ..... If you want to get the "nice" n019004l.pfb that is really Helvetica Bold you have to bug Ubuntu packagers to get the "correct" fontconfig configuration. That is also why when removing those packages you get what you think it is "correct" rendering
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