poppler cannot parse font weight "Medium"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Poppler |
Fix Released
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Medium
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poppler (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Lucid |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Natty |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Oneiric |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
The poppler library cannot parse font weight "Medium". Therefore in Japanese(ja) locale, characters which are not font-embedded but specified as "GothicBBB" are shown as squares and not readable.
GothicBBB is widely used as Japanese sans-serif(gothic) font. It has the full name "GothicBBB-
On the other hand, Ryumin which is widely used as Japanese serif(mincho) font has the name "Ryumin-
How to reproduce (assuming that you're not starting in Japanese locale):
1. Run Language Selector and install Japanese support.
2. sudo apt-get install poppler-data
3. sudo fontconfig-voodoo -s ja_JP
4. Open attached PDF file:
https:/
Expected:
all characters are showed properly
https:/
Actual:
upper-right characters which are specified as GothicBBB are showed as squares
https:/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: poppler-utils 0.16.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 24 10:09:07 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110423)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=ja_JP:en
LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: poppler
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
description: | updated |
Changed in poppler (Ubuntu Oneiric): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
tags: |
added: verification-done removed: verification-needed |
Changed in poppler (Ubuntu Lucid): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in poppler: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Sample PDF attached. /wiki.ubuntulin ux.jp/Develop/ Natty/Evince.
Thanks Hiroshi Chonan for providing this on https:/