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Bug 166665 - It can not show ps/pdf files in Chinese properly
It can not show ps/pdf files in Chinese properly
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.1.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-02-08 13:26 UTC by blewz
Modified: 2005-04-11 20:00 UTC
See Also:
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Description blewz 2005-02-08 13:26:29 UTC
Version details: 0.1.3
Distribution/Version: FC3

ggv can read ps files in Chinese 
and acroread can read pdf files after installing an extra language package. 
When I use evince, it gives the error
"Error (59677): No font in show/space
Error: Unknown font tag 'TT2'
Error: Unknown font tag 'TT2'
Error: Unknown font tag 'TT2'
Error: Unknown font tag 'TT2'
Error: Unknown font tag 'TT2'
Error: Unknown font tag 'TT2'
Error: Unknown character collection 'Adobe-GB1'
Error: Unknown font tag 'TT2'
Error (62614): No font in show/space
Error: Unknown font tag 'TT2'
", 

I also try evince, ggv and acroread with other  ps/pdf files, and find
for some files, it can display clearly.

My platform is FC3, gnome 2.10 beta 1
Comment 1 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2005-02-08 14:06:07 UTC
Does xpdf/gpdf work?
Comment 2 blewz 2005-02-12 01:45:47 UTC
gpdf does not work, but ggv work. 
Comment 3 Bryan W Clark 2005-03-28 15:17:43 UTC
Copying from RH bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=151125

Description of problem:
evince cannot display most of my pdf files correct. The files are loaded ok but
the chinese characters turn out to be random meaningless symbols. Running in
terminal, I can see a lot of error output such as
=====
Error: Unknown character collection 'Adobe-GB1'
Error: Unknown character collection 'Adobe-GB1'
Error: Unknown font tag 'F5'
Error: Unknown font tag 'F5'
Error: Unknown font tag 'F5'
Error: Unknown font tag 'F8'
Error: Unknown font tag 'F3'
Error (205398): No font in show/space
Error: Unknown font tag 'F8'
Error (205407): No font in show/space
=====
and my system turned very slow when loading these files. These files are
produced by Acrobat Distiller 5.0 (Windows) and/or CTeX suite (Windows)

It can render some pdf files very well, which are produced using pdflatex in
tetex-latex-2.0.2 or dvipdfmx(20031207), the source file is in UTF-8. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evince-0.1.9-1.1.fc3.nr

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a terminal
2. run evince
3. load a file that contains chinese characters
  

Actual Results:  If the pdf file is created using adobe distiller under windows,
then there would be alot of Error output, no chinese characters can be seen, but
a lot of strange symbols. Since most of my pdf files are produced that way
(adobe distillers + windows) and the source files(ppt, doc, etc.) are lost(bad
luck!), I cannot reproduce them under OOo. 
Most of the times, acroread displays them well.

Expected Results:  nothing should happen in the terminal, and the page displays
correctly, like acroread (with CHSKIT, language pack of acroread installed) does.



Additional info:

My default locale is zh_CN.UTF-8
when I switch to zh_CN.GB2312, the problem remains the same, so does the output
on terminal.
Comment 4 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2005-04-08 09:23:31 UTC
Poppler bug, please follow these instructions:

http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/helping.html#poppler
Comment 5 Bryan W Clark 2005-04-11 20:00:00 UTC
Created the f.d.o bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2984

I'd suggest getting on the cc list of that bug if you want to follow the
progress of this problem.