Bug 1589594 - evince does not display a certain embedded font correctly
Summary: evince does not display a certain embedded font correctly
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: evince
Version: 28
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Marek Kašík
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-06-10 23:49 UTC by Don Swaner
Modified: 2019-05-28 19:00 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-05-28 19:00:10 UTC
Type: Bug
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FreeDesktop.org 106898 0 None None None 2018-06-12 15:42:16 UTC

Description Don Swaner 2018-06-10 23:49:22 UTC
Description of problem:
For the pdf at http://www.willamette.edu/~ttalbott/FALSE_PROPHETS.PDF, which uses embedded fonts, evince displays the space character as an exclamation mark.  Firefox pdf previewer and ghostscript both display the document correctly.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evince-3.28.2-2.fc28.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Download and open the specified URL with evince.
2.  View the same URL with firefox previewer instead of evince (In Firefox: Edit / Preferences / Applications / Portable Document Format (PDF), specify "Preview in Firefox".)
3.  In a terminal, not maximized, run:
~ gs ~/Downloads/FALSE_PROPHETS.PDF

Actual results:
evince displays spaces as exclamation marks, whereas Firefox previewer and gs display spaces correctly.

Expected results:
evince also displays the pdf embedded font correctly.

Additional info:
Same result for gnome XWayland and for gnome Xorg.

Comment 1 Marek Kašík 2018-06-12 15:42:17 UTC
Hi,

I've looked into this today and it seems that the Type3 fonts in the PDF don't have glyph for space character. I've proposed an upstream patch which fixes this. Let's wait for upstream's decision.

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 19:18:38 UTC
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Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 21:35:52 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 28 is nearing its end of life.
On 2019-May-28 Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for
Fedora 28. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases
that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as
EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '28'.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you
plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' 
to a later Fedora version.

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not 
able to fix it before Fedora 28 is end of life. If you would still like 
to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version 
of Fedora, you are encouraged  change the 'version' to a later Fedora 
version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a 
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes 
bugs or makes them obsolete.

Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2019-05-28 19:00:10 UTC
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