GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 316013
printing PDF has mangled fonts and layout
Last modified: 2005-09-24 21:30:47 UTC
Please describe the problem: A particular PDF, when printed, has different fonts than the original which causes the output to be very unlikeable. Furthermore, margins seems to change or be off. Printing from Adobe Acrobat Reader on Windows results in perfect output. The erroneous output is visible both in a generated postscript file and on the actual printed hardcopy. When displayed as a PDF in Evince the document appears correctly. Steps to reproduce: 1. open attached PDF 2. print to a printer or a postscript file Actual results: The postscript rendition is different than the PDF rendition, being much worse. Expected results: Exact visual appearance of the PDF rendition. Does this happen every time? Yup. Other information: Evince 0.4.0 Gnome-Print 2.12.0 Ubuntu Breezy packages updated as of this morning.
Created attachment 52095 [details] PDF file which display the problem
Created attachment 52097 [details] postscript output from printing the PDF
There is an Ubuntu bug about a such issue: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15848
For more information, this problem doesn't seem to occur with Evine 0.4.0 on a Fedora Rawhide box. The same document will render properly on Evince on Rawhide and then be ugly/unreadable on Evince on Ubuntu. An additional problem with Evince (which I've only seen occur on Ubuntu) is that the entire document becomes unreadable, as if it's being rendered in a font with incorrect character/glyph mappings (it looks like Russian to me, but I could be wrong). Perhaps this is just an Ubuntu bug then and should be closed here...?
Do you have an example of the other issue you describe? Ubuntu has no vendor patch for that, no reason to be distro specific.
This is one of many documents in which, on Ubuntu, all I see is gibberish. It just loaded fine on this Fedora box. Both systems running Evince 0.4.0. http://www.guardiansorder.com/pdfs/besmd20_uresia_preview.pdf
This file works fine for me. I've you updated to the current poppler package? The switch to splash for it has fixed some issues
I am running the very latest Ubuntu packages as of right now. I'm attaching a screenshot of the file, in case the particular gibberish it displays is somehow helpful. Definitely not Russian, but it certainly isn't English, either. ;-) (Should this be a separate bug? This issue is for opening the file itself, the bug I filed is about fonts when printing.)
Created attachment 52446 [details] screenshot of wonky rendering of text
are you sure you use libpoppler0c2 0.4.2-0ubuntu4? Previous versions used to have this issue but it's fixed with the current one for me
libpoppler0c2 0.4.2-0ubuntu4 fixes the second problem; it just showed up in my apt-get upgrade this evening. The font problem during printing that this bug was actually filed for still persists, however.
The original font problem disappears when patch from comments 1 and 2 of https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4555 is applied to poppler.
Marking NOTGNOME then