Japanese PDF does not display correctly

[Sam Freilich]

Binary package hint: evince

Specifically, Japanese characters display as blocks instead of falling back to an available font (in this specific case, Properties > Fonts lists the requested font as ArialUnicodeMS-UniJIS-UTF16-H). A few other bugs suggested installing poppler-data, but that didn't help. The required fonts exist on the system, and I can copy the illegible text from the PDF to gedit (or any other program) and have it appear as expected.

The file also doesn't render correctly in acroread (even with acroread-fonts installed), so I'm not sure if the solution to the problem lies in evince or some other package.

One of the files that demonstrates this problem is attached.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 5 01:47:14 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince

[madbiologist (me-again)]

The file attached to comment #1 displays fine here on Ubuntu 10.10 with evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu1 with poppler-data installed.

Do you have WINE installed?

[Sam Freilich (l33tminion)]

No, I do not.

[Axel G. Rossberg (axel-rossberg)]

I had problems with Japanese fonts under evince/okular until I installed poppler-data (which was not an obvious fix). Shouldn't poppler-data be installed automatically if I request Japanese language support at system installation (as I did)?