evince doesn't display pdf as it should - low quality pdf font

[David Freitas]

Binary package hint: evince

This pdf: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/network.pdf
Renders very badly/bad/poor/poorly rendering quality.

Works fine in other readers.

I haven't been able to test with the latest (gutsy) evince.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. May you be more clear? which part of the pdf doesn't render well? it's a quite large document. A couple of screenshots showing the difference would be nice too, thanks for your report.

[David Freitas (jddcef)]

Cool Pedro.

Check these screen shots out: The text is grainy/broken on evince.
(No, it's nothing to do with the png encoding of the screenshots I uploaded, the difference is as it looks on my screen)

The evince shots show the incorrect displaying of the document I am refering to.
Even at 200% evince still looks like a inkjet printer quality (pixels missing) versus a laser printer quality in the other readers. (No, this problem is not about printers that print paper, it's just a metaphor.)

[David Freitas (jddcef)]

Oh, and the entire document has the same problem, not just the pages I send in the screenshot.

[David Freitas (jddcef)]

There we go. The screenshots are attached above. Enlarge the image to see the problem more closely.
If you need anymore information, let me know!

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

I do not know if this is the same...

I have just found that some PDFs are shown quite fuzzy on Evince, like you. I then tried to reload the PDF (Ctrl-R), and the PDF rendered much better. nBasically: start Evince, fuzzy. Reload the doc, good.

Can you try that?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Cool, Thanks you, re-assigning to poppler

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

And it's a dup of bug 20310 ; thanks for your report!

[David Freitas (jddcef)]

Just an extra note:

Reloading/refreshing (Ctrl-R) does not fix that pdf's rendering for me. (As user hggdh suggested above)

I commented on the dup bug 20310.