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Bug 628920 - Very poor font rendering in certain PDFs
Very poor font rendering in certain PDFs
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: PDF
2.30.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-09-06 20:34 UTC by dumbmatter
Modified: 2010-10-30 14:18 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Example PDF where Evince render the fonts poorly. (28.61 KB, application/pdf)
2010-09-06 20:34 UTC, dumbmatter 		Details
example.pdf viewed in Evince 2.30.3 on Ubuntu 10.04. Earlier versions had the same problem as well. (214.12 KB, image/png)
2010-09-06 20:35 UTC, dumbmatter 		Details
example.pdf viewed in Adobe Reader 9.2 on Ubuntu 10.04. It displays perfectly. (304.53 KB, image/png)
2010-09-06 20:36 UTC, dumbmatter 		Details

Description dumbmatter 2010-09-06 20:34:25 UTC 
Created attachment 169618 [details]
Example PDF where Evince render the fonts poorly.

Any paper I read from the American Journal of Heart Physiology (and possibly other journals... I have noticed this problem for years and am only now reporting the bug) has horribly rendered fonts in Evince. The letters look too large and seem to bump into each another. On the same computer, it looks perfect in Adobe Reader.

I have included an excerpted page of a paper from the journal since it normally requires a subscription to view.
Comment 1 dumbmatter 2010-09-06 20:35:43 UTC 
Created attachment 169619 [details]
example.pdf viewed in Evince 2.30.3 on Ubuntu 10.04. Earlier versions had the same problem as well.
Comment 2 dumbmatter 2010-09-06 20:36:47 UTC 
Created attachment 169620 [details]
example.pdf viewed in Adobe Reader 9.2 on Ubuntu 10.04. It displays perfectly.
Comment 3 Carlos Garcia Campos 2010-10-30 14:18:55 UTC 
Looks like a known poppler issue, see:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5168

Thanks for reporting.