Unicode characters from PDF import

[Martijn]

When importing a PDF that has unicode characters in it (Japanese in my case) the non-ANSI characters are all omitted. Any ANSI-characters do show up, and any non-ANSI characters are replaced by nothing (not even a space or a "unknown characater" character). The import looks fine in Illustrator CS5. All options left at their default values.

Inkscape 0.48.2 r9819
Windows 7 Utimate x64 SP1
Language = US English
Locale = Dutch/Netherlands

Examples are attached.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Confirmed on Windows XP, Inkscape trunk revision 11098 and 0.48.3.1.

Inkscape shows the following console messages (repeated several times):
Error (68994): No font in show
Error: Unknown font tag 'C0_8'
Error (42705): No font in show/space
Error: Unknown font tag 'C0_0'
...

With the trunk version, Inkscape also crashes when closing.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Testing on OS X 10.7.5:
- reproduced with the official stable package 0.48.2 (same console messages),
- not reproduced with local builds (stable 0.48.2 and later, trunk)
- not reproduced with new (experimental) application bundles based on the 'osxmenu' branch.

On OS X, the problem turned out to be missing poppler encoding data files [1]:
1) they are not included in the (dated) application bundle; and
2) if included, they need to be made known to the (relocatable) inkscape binary.

With Windows builds, possibly poppler-data is outdated, or not found by the inkscape binary (could be that full relocation support for poppler on Windows was added in a later version than the one included in the stable devlibs (poppler 0.12.1).

Fix used for a relocatable application bundle (WIP) on OS X in rev 12635-12638:
<http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~suv-lp/inkscape/osxmenu/changes/12638>

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[1] see 'poppler-data' tarballs from <http://poppler.freedesktop.org/>

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Bitmap export rendered with Inkscape 0.48.4 attached.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Bitmap export from PDF file attached in duplicate report #1264793, rendered with Inkscape 0.48.4 on OS X 10.7.5 (local build with up-to-date poppler-data files).

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Fix for OS X packaging committed in r13620.

Not closing - status with current Windows packages is unkown.

[Nathan Lee (nathan.lee)]

Closing because it's fixed in 0.92 and later in Windows and Linux (and already been confirmed fixed in OS X)

Confirmed fixed in 0.92.0 r15299, 0.92.1 r15371, 1.0.1 (3bc2e813f5, 2020-09-07) Windows 10, 1.1-dev (ad8effaa6e, 2020-11-17) Linux Mint 20

Confirmed 0.48.2-1, 0.48.5-1, 0.91-1 (Windows 10) has described bug, so calling this fixed

Closed by: https://gitlab.com/nathanal