Bug 1111675

Summary: Capital Greek Delta not rendering properly
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: sara.alderweireldt <sara.alderweireldt>
Component: dejavu-fontsAssignee: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 20CC: fonts-bugs, jfrieben, nicolas.mailhot, paul, peter, sara.alderweireldt
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Last Closed: 2015-06-29 21:14:28 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Flags
Original pdf, converted to png and screenshot
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Larger table of characters
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Sample PS file
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Sample PDF file
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Font list of sample PDF file for plain Fedora 21
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Font list of sample PDF file for Fedora 21 with webcore font packages installed none

Description sara.alderweireldt@gmail.com 2014-06-20 17:16:52 UTC
Created attachment 910841 [details]
Original pdf, converted to png and screenshot

Description of problem:
When I create a pdf that contains a capital greek delta and open it in a pdf viewer (Evince, Okular, ...), instead of the letter, I get the empty set symbol.

My pdf: test.pdf

When I use convert to make a png from the pdf, the letter comes out normally: 
test_convertFromPdf.png.

I attach a screenshot of what renders when I open the pdf:
test_screenFromEvince.png

I tried opening the exact same pdf on a different os (SL5), where it renders perfectly fine.

I'm thinking this might be dejavu related after reading this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-dejavu/+bug/1275971
If that's not the case, apologies for the misclassification.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
I'm running fc20, 
dejavu-fonts-common-2.34-1.fc20.noarch
dejavu-sans-mono-fonts-2.34-1.fc20.noarch
dejavu-sans-fonts-2.34-1.fc20.noarch
dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts-2.34-1.fc20.noarch
dejavu-lgc-serif-fonts-2.34-1.fc20.noarch
dejavu-serif-fonts-2.34-1.fc20.noarch
dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts-2.34-1.fc20.noarch
evince-3.10.3-1.fc20.x86_64
evince-nautilus-3.10.3-1.fc20.x86_64
evince-debuginfo-3.10.3-1.fc20.x86_64
evince-libs-3.10.3-1.fc20.x86_64
evince-djvu-3.10.3-1.fc20.x86_64


How reproducible:
Open the pdf (on my machine).

Steps to Reproduce:
Open the pdf?

Actual results:
The symbol doesn't render properly.

Expected results:
A nice capital Delta.

Additional info:
Feel free to ask for additional logs or version numbers, or other possibly relevant info.

Comment 1 sara.alderweireldt@gmail.com 2014-06-21 12:02:19 UTC
Looking a bit further, capital delta is not the only problematic one. From the following table there are several that are mapped to a different character when I open the pdf. 

Attaching in plots.tar:
greek.pdf (original)
greek.png (original)
greekConverted.png (screenshot of pdf)

Comment 2 sara.alderweireldt@gmail.com 2014-06-21 12:03:42 UTC
Created attachment 911002 [details]
Larger table of characters

The original pdf and png, and a screenshot from the pdf as png.

Comment 3 Joachim Frieben 2015-01-23 11:51:02 UTC
Created attachment 983308 [details]
Sample PS file

The same issue applies to evince-3.14.1-7.fc21:
1. The original PS file is rendered correctly.
2. The PDF file obtained by conversion with ps2pdf shows the capital Greek delta replaced by Ø.
3. When displaying the PDF file with ghostscript, then the rendering is correct.

Comment 4 Joachim Frieben 2015-01-23 11:51:26 UTC
Created attachment 983309 [details]
Sample PDF file

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Comment 6 Joachim Frieben 2015-05-29 14:04:48 UTC
Created attachment 1032114 [details]
Font list of sample PDF file for plain Fedora 21

Capital Greek delta is displayed correctly.

Comment 7 Joachim Frieben 2015-05-29 14:06:36 UTC
Created attachment 1032115 [details]
Font list of sample PDF file for Fedora 21 with webcore font packages installed

Capital Greek delta is displayed incorrectly when webcore font packages are installed.

Comment 8 Fedora End Of Life 2015-06-29 21:14:28 UTC
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Comment 9 Joachim Frieben 2015-10-25 10:55:09 UTC
Issue still present for Fedora 22; please reopen.