[Saucy] Non-embedded fonts displayed incorrectly by evince (PDF)

[James Walker]

Binary package hint: evince

Ubuntu Fiesty (beta) amd64: evince 0.8.0 with poppler 0.5.4 doesn't correctly display fonts that are not embedded in the PDF, even though those fonts are installed. I think this may be similar to bug #52374 which was closed due to lack of information. I installed xpdf and it is able to correctly display the file.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 9 16:54:11 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
Package: evince 0.8.0-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: evince file:///home/james/work/JNC2503%20-%20Environmental%20Pathways/methylmercury/mackay1995.pdf
ProcCwd: /home/james
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/james/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux james-laptop 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Wed Mar 21 19:34:23 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. Could you make a screenshot of the problem?

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Confirmed with evince and kpdf.

[Tero Karvinen (karvinen+launchpad)]

This problem also exists in 6.06 LTS Dapper.

A bypass is to view the file in xpdf, which replaces unknown fonts with those it can render correctly. I think PDF standard requires viewers to have some fonts, so those fonts are not embedded by default. Because of this, a lot of pdf:s are shown incorrectly.

Bug #96662 "ugly fonts in some documents in evince" seems similar to this bug.

[Mike Doherty (doherty)]

Looks like this bug still appears in Ubuntu 13.10.

[Mike Doherty (doherty)]

Looks like this can possibly be marked as a duplicate of bug 667752.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

James Walker, this is not reproducible in Trusty with the provided document.