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Jero (jbuencuerpo) wrote : Re: [Bug 162111] Re: Evince displays math equations incorrectly

Levente as you said, okular and evince has the bug but xpdf and acroread not.
 If you install ttf-symbol-replacement in the other machine, you could
reproduce the bug?

2010/6/15 Levente Torok <email address hidden>:
> It is interesting.
> The same happens to me in okular (unlike in xpdf) so problem is not
> with evince but with the popplar library for sure. ( see the enclosed
> png file)
> I also enclosed the with packages of fonts installed on my system.
> And this is the output of pdffonts but I still don't know how to come
> over this problem.
>
>
> lev@red:~$ pdffonts -f 4 BleiJordan_LDA.pdf
> name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
> ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
> CMR10                                Type 1            yes no  no     117  0
> CMEX10                               Type 1            yes no  no     120  0
> CMMI10                               Type 1            yes no  no     118  0
> CMSY10                               Type 1            yes no  no     237  0
> Times-Bold                           Type 1            no  no  no     228  0
> Times-Roman                          Type 1            no  no  no     229  0
> Times-Italic                         Type 1            no  no  no     231  0
> Symbol                               Type 1            no  no  no     121  0
> ZapfChancery-MediumItalic            Type 1            no  no  no     119  0
> Times-Italic                         Type 1            no  no  no     122  0
> Courier                              Type 1            no  no  no     123  0
> Helvetica                            Type 1            no  no  no     124  0
> Times-Roman                          Type 1            no  no  no     125  0
> Courier-Bold                         Type 1            no  no  no     126  0
> [none]                               Type 3            yes no  no     127  0
> [none]                               Type 3            yes no  no     128  0
> [none]                               Type 3            yes no  no     129  0
> [none]                               Type 3            yes no  no     130  0
> [none]                               Type 3            yes no  no     131  0
> [none]                               Type 3            yes no  no     157  0
> [none]                               Type 3            yes no  no     158  0
> Helvetica                            Type 1            no  no  no     208  0
>
>
> On the other hand, another machine which I also upgraded doesn't have
> this problem at all.
>
> Levente
>
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Jero <email address hidden> wrote:
>> With Symbol from my windows install I got the same problem.
>> Like I say in http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26139 , If I replace /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/Symbol.pfb with symbol.ttf I could see everything ok in the document, Pi character,etc., but that messes up openoffice.
>>
>> (About OO, I can't reproduce it know but it has done things weird in the
>> past exporting to pdf after changing that font)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>> Evince displays math equations incorrectly
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/162111
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>> of the bug.
>>
>> Status in Evince document viewer: Confirmed
>> Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>> Status in “wine1.2” package in Ubuntu: New
>>
>> Bug description:
>> Binary package hint: evince
>>
>> I am using Evince to view a TexLive compilation of an Optics Express paper that I am trying to submit in DVI format.  The paper displays correctly in xdvi, but not in Evince.  Evince is much better in general than xdvi, so I would prefer to use it.  Evince does not display many parts of my math equations correctly.  It seems to be some kind of font issue, but I cannot figure out how to fix it.
>>
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>
>
> ** Attachment added: "fonts.lst"
>   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50359134/fonts.lst
>
> ** Attachment added: "evince.png"
>   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50359135/evince.png
>
> --
> Evince displays math equations incorrectly
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/162111
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Evince document viewer: Confirmed
> Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “wine1.2” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: evince
>
> I am using Evince to view a TexLive compilation of an Optics Express paper that I am trying to submit in DVI format.  The paper displays correctly in xdvi, but not in Evince.  Evince is much better in general than xdvi, so I would prefer to use it.  Evince does not display many parts of my math equations correctly.  It seems to be some kind of font issue, but I cannot figure out how to fix it.
>
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>