Poor font rendering in okular
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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poppler (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: kpdf
For Kubuntu 6.06 and 5.10 (can't speak for earlier releases), kpdf font rendering is of poor quality. Strangely, xpdf renders the same document at the same zoom level much better. The text in kpdf is still readable, but some characters will seem more "bold" than others, and overall it just isn't as readable when zoomed out.
I've also compared screenshots of the rendering with that done by kpdf under FC4, which looks much better. I'm really puzzled about what the cause of the difference might be. I found some old bugs in the KDE repository a few months ago that indicated an old version of truetype was causing some more severe rendering problems, but this particular issue persists in Kubuntu 6.06. I also considered that it might be a font server at work in Fedora, but that doesn't explain why xpdf would render properly.
For reference, I was using the nvidia binary driver under both Kubuntu and FC4, and the FC4 install has used KDE 3.4 and 3.5, none of which exhibited a rendering problem.
I'd be happy to provide screenshots or do other testing.
Changed in kdegraphics: | |
status: | Fix Released → New |
Could this be related to the kpdf poppler patches?