bad rendering - garbled text

[Egon Kocjan]

Tested on Hardy, evince renders pdf badly, while xpdf renders ok.

[David-juran (david-juran)]

Created an attachment (id=11452)
screenshot

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

This is not a bug. The font does not have the fonts embedded and you probably don't have Univers-Light not Univers-UltraCondensed fonts installed in your system, so we try to find some font that matches and draw them where the documents ask for them to be read, as the font we get is wider than those fonts, glyphs overlap.

[David-juran (david-juran)]

Hmmm, xpdf-3.02-3.fc7 seems to get the font at least somewhat right. But that's maybe a coincidence that happens in this particular case...

[Jeff Muizelaar (jeff-infidigm)]

xpdf has code to adjust the width of the rendered font, that code got ripped out of poppler when the fontconfig patches hit.

[Jeff Muizelaar (jeff-infidigm)]

The cairo backend is 'fixed' now. The splash backend remains broken.

[Brad Hards (bradh)]

Jeff

I take it that your "Scale text to match 'm' size" patch is the Cairo backend fix for this?

Brad

[Jeff Muizelaar (jeff-infidigm)]

Yep that's the cairo fix.

[Jeff Muizelaar (jeff-infidigm)]

*** Bug 9830 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Egon Kocjan (egon-kocjan)]

Tested on Hardy, evince renders pdf badly, while xpdf renders ok.

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

Fixed on Splash on master too.

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

*** Bug 14294 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Luke-hutchison (luke-hutchison)]

Does the cairo backend use this information to try to find the font that requires the minimum stretching, i.e. with the most similar metrics? If not (i.e. if it's just approximately matching font style etc.) then this could make some articles look a little funny, as individual glyphs are stretched different amounts to fit on screen.

[Egon Kocjan (egon-kocjan)]

I've reported the bug here:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14294

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for sent it upstream!.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

What is your issue exactly, the font rendering? The new version in hardy still has the issue, the upstream bug should likely be reopened

[Egon Kocjan (egon-kocjan)]

The fix is not present in 0.6.4, but it seems to be mostly fixed in git. I've reopened the bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14294

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

fixed upstream.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

upstream considers that poppler is doing its job correctly, rendering issue can be due to the fonts available though

[Jeff Muizelaar (jeff-infidigm)]

Created an attachment (id=19078)
prototype of cairo user fonts for scaling to character widths