Created attachment 88723 [details] The PDF file metioned in the bug description This document I have attached looks fine on Windows with Adobe Reader and on Linux with gv and pdfedit, but it looks creepy in evince and okular, so I suspect poppler to misinterpret some font meta-information. I run Arch Linux on x86_64. Here are some screenshots: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/202/n7p0.png/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/35/ijoi.png/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/594/jtk7.png/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/856/rcsp.png/
@reporter: I can not identify from the screenshots what exactly you are rating as "looking creepy". Also, on my currently used Mac system the uploaded PDF seems to render just fine with gv, Ghostscript, Preview.app, Adobe Acrobat Professional, callas pdfToolbox, evince, mupdf-x11 and oKular. But I can see from your uploaded PDF, that it does not have all fonts embedded. 'Arial' and 'Arial,Bold' are missing. Also 'pdffonts' notes that fontconfig complains about a problem with one of the embedded fonts: pdffonts poppler-bug-#88723.pdf Fontconfig warning: ignoring UTF-8: not a valid region tag name type encoding emb sub uni object ID ----------------- ----------------- ------------ --- --- --- --------- Arial TrueType WinAnsi no no no 5 0 ABCDEE+Verdana TrueType WinAnsi yes yes no 7 0 Arial CID TrueType Identity-H yes no yes 13 0 Symbol CID TrueType Identity-H yes no yes 18 0 Arial,Bold TrueType WinAnsi no no no 29 0 Arial,Bold CID TrueType Identity-H yes no yes 54 0 On my local system, I do have appropriate replacement fonts available: pdffonts -subst poppler-bug-#88723.pdf Fontconfig warning: ignoring UTF-8: not a valid region tag name object ID substitute font substitute font file ------------ --------- --------------- ----------------------------- Arial 5 0 Arial /Library/Fonts/Arial.ttf Arial,Bold 29 0 Arial Negreta /Library/Fonts/Arial Bold.ttf You should run this last command on your system to see which substitute font Poppler/fontconfig do use for the too missing ones. Maybe these are responsible for your "creepy look". Two points: 1. To solve this problem for real, you need to recreate the PDF in question and ensure all used fonts are properly embedded. 2. Since this real solution is not always possible (you haven't created the PDF yourself, but downloaded it from the internet, f.e.), you can try it with a workaround: - install the proper replacement fonts - set up fontconfig so that it makes use of these replacement fonts.
OK, I probably reported the bug too early. If you say it is because of my font setup, then I will have to check that. What I actually meant was bad kerning, I thought I had said that, sorry. Thank you!
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