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Bug 316013 - printing PDF has mangled fonts and layout
printing PDF has mangled fonts and layout
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.4.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-09-11 18:16 UTC by Sean Middleditch
Modified: 2005-09-24 21:30 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12


Attachments
PDF file which display the problem (61.78 KB, application/pdf)
2005-09-11 18:16 UTC, Sean Middleditch
Details
postscript output from printing the PDF (108.88 KB, application/postscript)
2005-09-11 18:17 UTC, Sean Middleditch
Details
screenshot of wonky rendering of text (604.28 KB, image/png)
2005-09-20 22:06 UTC, Sean Middleditch
Details

Description Sean Middleditch 2005-09-11 18:16:02 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.
Comment 1 Sean Middleditch 2005-09-11 18:16:53 UTC
Created attachment 52095 [details]
PDF file which display the problem
Comment 2 Sean Middleditch 2005-09-11 18:17:27 UTC
Created attachment 52097 [details]
postscript output from printing the PDF
Comment 3 Sebastien Bacher 2005-09-20 13:59:01 UTC
There is an Ubuntu bug about a such issue:
https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15848
Comment 4 Sean Middleditch 2005-09-20 17:04:16 UTC
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...?
Comment 5 Sebastien Bacher 2005-09-20 20:10:21 UTC
Do you have an example of the other issue you describe? 

Ubuntu has no vendor patch for that, no reason to be distro specific.
Comment 6 Sean Middleditch 2005-09-20 20:32:50 UTC
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
Comment 7 Sebastien Bacher 2005-09-20 20:50:41 UTC
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
Comment 8 Sean Middleditch 2005-09-20 22:04:49 UTC
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.)
Comment 9 Sean Middleditch 2005-09-20 22:06:02 UTC
Created attachment 52446 [details]
screenshot of wonky rendering of text
Comment 10 Sebastien Bacher 2005-09-21 07:17:52 UTC
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
Comment 11 Sean Middleditch 2005-09-22 01:13:57 UTC
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.
Comment 12 Jiri Cerny 2005-09-24 17:28:16 UTC
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. 
Comment 13 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2005-09-24 21:30:47 UTC
Marking NOTGNOME then