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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050719 Epiphany/1.6.5 Description of problem: Bold italic Times characters (math mode) are poorly rendered by "evince" for a pdflatex-generated PDF file. The characters are not slanted, and the font seems to have changed, too. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evince-0.4.0-1.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a PDF document using the bold italic Times font in math mode. 2. Open the file with "evince". Actual Results: The rendering is flawed. Expected Results: Italic bold Times characters should look as expected. Additional info: Opening the PDF file by means of "xpdf", the rendering is correct. This bug has been present since the initial release of "evince".
Created attachment 118388 [details] Sample PDF file rendered by "evince"
Created attachment 118389 [details] Sample PDF file rendered by "xpdf"
After converting the PDF file to PS by means od "pdftops", the resulting PS file is rendered correctly by "evince".
The problem seems to be Red Hat specific as no other tested distribution exhibits the reported anomaly.
Issue resolved for a current rawhide test system.
Well, I have to correct myself, or this is partially broken again. At least for the current tree, the Times font is rendered correctly but the characters are not bold ones. As mentioned above, displaying the PDF file by some other flavour of Linux distro using "evince", no similar regression is observed.
After installing Truetype support for teTeX 3.0, the newly create PDF file displays correctly. The previous PDF file was created by pdfTeX-1.10b (FC3 flavour of teTeX 2.0.2), the current one by pdfeTeX-1.21a. The font list is longer for the current version than the previous one. Possibly, a bug in the earlier pdfTeX release was hence the culprit.
Sounds like this was fixed, so I'm closing the bug. If the problem persists, please reopen, but do attach the pdf file in question, thanks.