Comment 0 for bug 1824260

What I expected to happen:

I am filling out the SS-5 Social Security Administration form (see attached). I entered "John Jacob Smith" into the "First", "Full Middle Name", and "Last" fields on page 5.

What happened instead:

I can enter the text without issue, but some of the letters are wrongly positioned, i.e. the kerning is wrong. For example, the letter "i" overlaps with the letter "m" in "Smith" (see attached image). It looks like the font in the fields might be displaying a variable width font when it is supposed to be a fixed-wdith font.

Discussion:

Since this bug is also present in xpdf and Okular (but not mupdf), I'm guessing this isn't a bug in Evince itself. However, I am reporting it here as a courtesy to other users (since Evince is the default PDF reader) and because I'm not sure which a dependency is responsible. (I'm also not sure if it's a direct dependency problem or if it's something else like a fontconfig issue.)

Here is the output for pdffonts ss-5.pdf:

name type encoding emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
IHPIKC+ArialMT CID TrueType Identity-H yes yes yes 824 0
ArialMT TrueType WinAnsi no no no 826 0
Arial-BoldMT TrueType WinAnsi no no no 828 0
CourierStd Type 1 WinAnsi no no no 145 0
Helvetica Type 1 WinAnsi no no no 197 0
MyriadPro-Regular Type 1 WinAnsi no no no 198 0
ZapfDingbats Type 1 ZapfDingbats no no no 199 0

I asked about this in an Ask Ubuntu question nearly a year ago, but received no response, so I am reporting a bug now instead:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1031235/wrong-letter-positioning-and-font-in-pdf-form

Ubuntu version:

Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release: 18.04

evince version:

$ apt-cache policy evince
evince:
  Installed: 3.28.4-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.28.4-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.28.4-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.28.2-1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: evince 3.28.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-47.50-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-47-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Wed Apr 10 21:27:11 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-12-12 (119 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)