evince should use subpixel antialiasing for documents if the gconf key /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/antialiasing is set to "rgba"

[Ilja Sekler]

Binary package hint: evince

Evince always applies grayscale font smoothing to displayed documents. It should be able to provide subpixel antialiasing to match the appearance of the surrounding GNOME desktop too, if set so in gnome-appearance-properties.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Set font smoothing to "Subpixel (LCDs)"

2. Open a PDF document with evince

3. Compare how menu fonts and document fonts are displayed.

Actual results:

Grayscale antialiasing for document fonts, subpixel antialiasing for menu fonts.

Expected results:

Both menu and document fonts are rendered using subpixel antialiasing.

It may be a pure backend issue, please move then to poppler or something more appropriate.

Hardly possible that this bug has not been reported before, but I've failed to find the original report.

Hardy Heron, evince 2.22.2-0ubuntu1

[mbana (m.bana)]

This is precisely why I prefer to use Windows when I've got something long to read.

[Tijmen (tijm6140)]

Opening the file in Okular rather than Evince fixes this. Not sure if that helps, though.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.