Document Viewer UI unreadable in Hebrew (characters replaced by square blocks)

Bug #811093 reported by EliCoten
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Pango
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Undecided
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evince (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

I get the following warnings when I run evince from a terminal.

(evince:6991): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Sans Mono 5.25'

(evince:6991): Pango-WARNING **: font_face status is: <unknown error status>

(evince:6991): Pango-WARNING **: scaled_font status is: out of memory

(evince:6991): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Sans 11'

(evince:6991): Pango-WARNING **: font_face status is: <unknown error status>

(evince:6991): Pango-WARNING **: scaled_font status is: out of memory

(evince:6991): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='HebrewEngineFc', font='DejaVu Sans 11', text='ההתאמה הטובה ביותר'

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu12.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: ad9a15703e19217cb3448f881e125f6a
CheckboxSystem: abc83e3988b72e7c3a9b3aa684cb92fd
Date: Fri Jul 15 16:09:24 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=he:en
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 LC_MESSAGES=he_IL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-11 (64 days ago)

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EliCoten (launchpad-elicoten) wrote :
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

could you please attach an example document showing the issue to the report? Thanks.

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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EliCoten (launchpad-elicoten) wrote :

It doesn't happen with any specific document. As you will see from the attached screenshot, the boxes appear in the user-interface. That is, dialogues, menus, buttons, etc.

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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EliCoten (launchpad-elicoten) wrote :

Seems fixed in Oneiric 11.10

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
status: Fix Released → New
Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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