> The reason is that Debian and Ubuntu don't package poppler-data
> (http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-data-0.2.0.tar.gz) that
> contains the necessary CMap etc files. This information is also contained
> in xpdf-japanese, but installed in a place where evince (or rather poppler)
> doesn't look for it.
> I got evince to display your example pdf by unpacking the above tarball
> into /usr/share and renaming the toplevel directory to "poppler".
according to roderich.schupp ATT googlemail ,
> The reason is that Debian and Ubuntu don't package poppler-data poppler. freedesktop. org/poppler- data-0. 2.0.tar. gz) that
> (http://
> contains the necessary CMap etc files. This information is also contained
> in xpdf-japanese, but installed in a place where evince (or rather poppler)
> doesn't look for it.
> I got evince to display your example pdf by unpacking the above tarball
> into /usr/share and renaming the toplevel directory to "poppler".
Isn't it a clue to find a fix ?