Bug 131026 - Bad font display - kpdf does a better job
Summary: Bad font display - kpdf does a better job
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xpdf
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-08-26 18:47 UTC by Bob Gustafson
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-09-04 16:41:27 UTC
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Description Bob Gustafson 2004-08-26 18:47:59 UTC
Description of problem:

  I opened up a file in Gnome->Graphics->PDF Viewer. The bottom of the
page and the next page displayed as garbage characters.

I opened the same document in kpdf and it worked better. The font was
originally italic and then changed to roman. Things seemed to go wrong
at the first transition.

It may just be a bad choice of default font for PDF Viewer. (Default -
font used when the real font cannot be found).

http://www.mccormack.umb.edu/institute/Publications/nejpp/articles/spring_summer2003/Murninghan.pdf

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

  Gnome PDF Viewer 2.7.90

How reproducible:

  Have not tried it on other documents with italic fonts.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download above referenced file
2. Gnome->Graphics->PDF Viewer->File->open-><select> above file
3. Scroll to bottom of first page
4. Go to second page
  
Actual results:

  As above

Expected results:

  Readable type

Additional info:

  Up2date Fedora Rawhide system

Comment 1 Bob Gustafson 2004-09-04 16:41:27 UTC
Version 2.7.91 works fine on the given web site.

(need to open from standalone. Does not seem to work from Mozilla -
blank screen)

reported bug fixed.
Works for me


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