Bug 48843

Summary: xpdf can't view Japanese pdf file that can be viewed by gv
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Bill Huang <bhuang>
Component: xpdfAssignee: Than Ngo <than>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version: 7.3CC: ynakai
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a pdf file for debugging none

Description Bill Huang 2001-07-12 07:05:28 UTC 
Description of Problem:
xpdf can't view Japanese pdf file,though the pdf file can be viewed by gv.

How Reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make a test.ps file(that included Japanese characters) by using mozilla
2. using ps2pdf test.ps to make test.pdf
3. view test.pdf by xpdf

Actual Results:
Japanese can't be viewed correctly.
Error message:
Error: This document uses Type 3 fonts -some text may not be correctly
displayed

Expected Results:
Japanese can be correctly displayed

Additional Information:
gv can view this Japanese pdf file correctly
Comment 1 Nakai 2001-07-12 08:52:52 UTC 
You should attach the pdf file.
Comment 2 Bill Huang 2001-07-12 09:14:03 UTC 
Created attachment 23367 [details]
a pdf file for debugging
Comment 3 Nakai 2001-07-12 09:35:18 UTC 
The xpdf error: This document uses Type 3 fonts - some text may not be correctly
displayed

And xpdf-0.92 README says:
Type 3 fonts are still not well supported by xpdf.

So this is the known bug and limitation of xpdf.
Comment 4 Glen Foster 2001-07-13 19:45:09 UTC 
This defect considered MUST-FIX for Fairfax gold-release.
Comment 5 Glen Foster 2001-08-14 18:17:25 UTC 
According to the development staff, it's a known limitation of the program and
not a regression.  Therefore, the MUST-FIX tag is being removed.
Comment 6 Jay Turner 2002-02-13 20:43:24 UTC 
Knocking this down in priority and severity.
Comment 7 Ngo Than 2002-06-02 15:42:53 UTC 
it's fixed in xpdf-1.01-2.