xpdf additional language support not fully working

[Tong Sun]

Binary package hint: xpdf

I know that the xpdf-chinese-simplified package was removed since
xpdf 3.02-9, but the problem is that now some Chinese pdf files
can't be viewed under my current system, though I do can view the
other Chinese pdf files.

Here is the console error output when viewing those that xpdf can't
view:

 Error: Unknown character collection 'Adobe-GB1'
 Error: Couldn't find 'UniGB-UCS2-H' CMap file for 'Adobe-GB1' collection
 Error: Unknown CMap 'UniGB-UCS2-H' for character collection 'Adobe-GB1'
 . . .
 Error: Unknown font tag 'F6'
 Error: Unknown font tag 'F8'
 Error: Unknown font tag 'F11'
 Error: Unknown font tag 'F8'
 Error: Unknown font tag 'F8'
 . . .

I don't know if the problem is due to that some Chinese pdf files
have Chinese fonts embedded and some others not, but I do see that
the Language Support Packages, including xpdf-chinese-simplified,
are still listed in the current xpdf home page,
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html

The error-triggering pdf sample file can be downloaded from
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=10;filename=ITIL-V3.pdf;att=1;bug=623728

Please do further investigations.

Thanks

PS

$ apt-cache policy cmap-adobe-cns1 cmap-adobe-gb1
cmap-adobe-cns1:
  Installed: 0+20090930-2
  Candidate: 0+20090930-2
  Version table:
 *** 0+20090930-2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
cmap-adobe-gb1:
  Installed: 0+20090930-2
  Candidate: 0+20090930-2
  Version table:
 *** 0+20090930-2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xpdf-reader 3.02-9ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 22 22:41:39 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xpdf

[Tong Sun (suntong001)]

The same file views fine under Debian Squeeze using xpdf + cmap-adobe-cns1 cmap-adobe-gb1 + poppler-data,
and I tried the combination of xpdf-reader + cmap-adobe-cns1 cmap-adobe-gb1 + poppler-data before as well under Ubuntu Maverick, but didn't work.

[Michael Gilbert (michael-s-gilbert)]

this is known breakage and is due to the reversion for makerick. technically this will be fixed for natty, but xpdf itself is on course to be completely broken in that release, so it won't matter.