That bug has been described on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/47039: "Due to font errors, the PDFs at http://help.ubuntu.com/6.06/index.ko.html can't be readable by evince, only index of contents shown. But, using acroread they are readable as attached. Font error were Error: Couldn't create a font for '2Eb071UnBatang,Bold' Error: Couldn't create a font for '1Eafd3UnBatang' http://librarian.launchpad.net/2953540/DesktopGuidePDF.png it's readable by acroread, I am using scim so I opened it with GTK_IM_MODULE=xim acroread desktopguide.pdf ... I get the same here on latest Dapper. 100% cpu too whilst it tries to render. The Index list text in the sidebar seems to be displaying ok. john@seiza:~$ evince Desktop/desktopguide.pdf Error: Couldn't create a font for '2Eb071UnBatang,Bold' Error: Couldn't create a font for '2Eb071UnBatang,Bold' Error: Couldn't create a font for '2Eb071UnBatang,Bold' Error: Couldn't create a font for '2Eb071UnBatang,Bold' Error: Couldn't create a font for '2Eb071UnBatang,Bold' Error: Couldn't create a font for '2Eb071UnBatang,Bold' Error: Couldn't create a font for '2Eb071UnBatang,Bold' Error: Couldn't create a font for '1Eafd3UnBatang' Error: Couldn't create a font for '1Eafd3UnBatang' Error: Couldn't create a font for '1Eafd3UnBatang' Error: Couldn't create a font for '1Eafd3UnBatang' Error: Couldn't create a font for '1Eafd3UnBatang' Error: Couldn't create a font for '1Eafd3UnBatang' Error: Couldn't create a font for '2Eb071UnBatang,Bold' Error: Couldn't create a font for '1Eafd3UnBatang' Error: Couldn't create a font for '1Eafd3UnBatang' Error: Couldn't create a font for '1Eafd3UnBatang' Error: Couldn't create a font for '2Eb071UnBatang,Bold' Error: Couldn't create a font for '1Eafd3UnBatang' Error: Couldn't create a font for '1Eafd3UnBatang' Error: Couldn't create a font for '1Eafd3UnBatang' ---snip--- ... > The example page has moved apparently, do still have the example? Could you point an another URI to download it or attach it to the bug? ... http://librarian.launchpad.net/4442614/desktopguide.pdf I've found a mirror of it which I'm attaching. It doesn't work in edgy either btw. Blank pages, high CPU. ..." The same issue happens with poppler 0.5.4 and poppler-data installed
might be the same issue than bug #7093 or bug #8070
Note that this bug isn't just with Korean fonts, it applies to any PDF I've tried with embedded truetype fonts. I'll attach an English one.
Created attachment 7225 [details] English PDF with embedded truetype fonts As promised, here is the attachment.
Created attachment 7633 [details] another example
this is still a problem on Ubuntu feisty, which sports libpoppler 0.5.4. Any news?
Some font fixes just went into poppler head. If possible, can you test again with that configuration? Even confirming if it is still a problem with poppler 0.6.2 would be useful.
Using libpoppler 0.6.2 - the description example doesn't open in evince, it's using over 1.6G in tmp and breaking due to the lack of space there - the desktopguide.pdf example is still displayed empty and "some font thing failed" lines are written on the command line - using test-poppler-glib displays identic "some font thing failed" warnings
I finally got around to trying this with Qt4 tools on top-of-tree. Still bad.
"Couldn't create a font for" errors are due to FreeType erroring on loading some font, i reported the problem to them and they said the fonts are broken and will not support them. Sorry there's nothing more i can do.
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