Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap

[Shirish Agarwal]

Binary package hint: evince

It took a long time to load a poster.pdf .

This is the error it showed in terminal .

~$ evince poster.pdf
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap

When it did show, it is/was sort of grainy.

If there is some sort font which is missing, it should show in some understandable manner.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: evince 2.25.4-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_IN
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-4-generic i686

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

The poster in question can be found at http://madsrh.googlepages.com/poster.pdf

Attaching the same.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

I can confirm the error messages and the graininess. However, please note that the graininess goes away when zooming in... Opened also in acroread 8, no errors, no graininess (however, zoom in to 150% and the graininess goes away also in evince).
The fonts included are "Calibri" and "Ubuntu-Title"

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

that's a poppler issue, will forward upstream.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug has been opened on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/314506

"It took a long time to load a poster.pdf .

This is the error it showed in terminal .

~$ evince poster.pdf
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap

When it did show, it is/was sort of grainy.

If there is some sort font which is missing, it should show in some understandable manner.

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20959731/poster.pdf
The poster in question can be found at http://madsrh.googlepages.com/poster.pdf
I can confirm the error messages and the graininess. However, please note that the graininess goes away when zooming in... Opened also in acroread 8, no errors, no graininess (however, zoom in to 150% and the graininess goes away also in evince).
The fonts included are "Calibri" and "Ubuntu-Title""

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug has been sent to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20492

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

Define long time please, 1 second, 1 minute, 1 hour, 1 day?

The font grainyness seem present only in the cairooutputdev, poppler master is supposed to have some fixes about fonts in the cairooutputdev but i can't test it because it needs a too new cairo, Carlos can you please test?

[Carlos Garcia Campos (carlosgc)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Define long time please, 1 second, 1 minute, 1 hour, 1 day?

4.5 seconds with poppler-glib-demo

> The font grainyness seem present only in the cairooutputdev, poppler master is
> supposed to have some fixes about fonts in the cairooutputdev but i can't test
> it because it needs a too new cairo, Carlos can you please test?
>

fonts issue is present in git master too.

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

4.5s doesn't seem "too long" to me, moving to cairo outputdev component as the font problem is the only problem i really see in this pdf.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what do you call long time for loading it? it takes some seconds in jaunty

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

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[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

sebastien, I wouldn't focus on the loading time, but on the errors. The loading time is indeed ~10 seconds for me in jaunty, then when scrolling down (to see the bottom of the page) there's another freeze of 5-10 seconds...

[Peter Funk (pf-artcom-gmbh)]

I stumbled over this bug report while searching the web on
with the error message
"Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap"
I saw this message displayed while trying to view a PDF file
generated by Adobe Indesign CS4 (Adobe PDF Library 9.0) with
evince (Ubuntu 9.4 Jaunty with poppler-utils 0.10.5-1ubuntu2).

In my case this particular PDF displays wrong results
(compared to what Adobe Acrobat 8.0 shows and what the creator
of this particular PDF obviously intended): Certain text
is missing! Unfortunately I'm not allowed to attach this
particular problematic PDF because it contains confidential info.

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

Peter, without the pdf there is nothing we can do, if you send it to me i can have a look and put it on my files to never share. Otherwise we can't do anything.

[Carlos Garcia Campos (carlosgc)]

It takes mostly the same time in splash and cairo backend, I see the same error messages with both too and the fonts rendering issue is fixed in git master now (bug #5589). Do we move this to general because of the rendering time? or just close it as fixed because of the font rendering?

[nuttycat (nuttycat)]

There's a proposed patch here : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27728
Can someone please integrate this into the the latest release? The current version libpoppler5_0.12.4-0ubuntu5_i386 in Lucid (Ubuntu 10.04) with all the latest updates still shows this error.

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

Hi all,
I am on Debian sid now and this issue is still there.

Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap

It does not matter what app I use get the same issue.

$ epdfview cellit.pdf
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap

$ xpdf cellit.pdf
Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap

and it takes quite a bit of time to open up (more than a minute) the file. This is on Pentium Dual-core. The error comes out multiple times.

One can find the pdf I was opening at http://cellit.co.in/ui_images/magazines/pdf/Magazine-1-2012-33.pdf . I just renamed it to cellit so I remember.

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

$ apt-show-versions -a libpoppler13
libpoppler13 0.16.7-2+b1 install ok installed
No stable version
libpoppler13 0.16.7-2+b1 testing ftp.au.debian.org
libpoppler13 0.16.7-2+b1 unstable ftp.au.debian.org

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