From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040312 Description of problem: The current xpdf rpm package in Fedora has serious mistake that it can show font embedded Japanese pdf file but cannot show Japanese pdf without font inside. This patch http://thinkpad.et8.net/lucida/linux-patch/files/xpdf-3.0-cjk-font.diff fixes CID->GID mapping fontCIDType2, which is the CID font format with TrueType wrapped inside with dictionary. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Japanese PDF with xpdf 2. No string... 3. Actual Results: No string Expected Results: Actual Japanese string. Additional info: This patch is not Japanese specific so should not break other languages. And you need to delete displayFontX line and add the line displayCIDFontTT Adobe-Japan1 "/usr/share/fonts/ja/TrueType/kochi-gothic-subst.ttf" in /etc/xpdfrc.ja. Korean and Chinese are supposed to have that problem too and it'll be fixed samely.
Created attachment 100319 [details] F*ck'n easy Japanese pdf - but xpdf fails to show
Created attachment 100320 [details] screenshot of samle-orig.pdf before patch
Created attachment 100321 [details] screenshot of sample-orig.pdf: after patch
Created attachment 100322 [details] diff for /etc/xpdfrc.ja
Yukihiro, could you attach a test pdf file for testing please? Thanks
Comment 1 has a test pdf. Let me know if you need more. Cheers
i already added the patch into xpdf-3.00-5, it will show up in fc3 tree soon. Please test it again if this problem is fixed. Thanks