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incorrect fonts displayed in Hydro-Quebec invoices

Bug #330438 reported by Benoit Pruneau
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Poppler
Won't Fix
Medium
freetype (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: evince

Ubuntu 8.10

evince:
  Installé : 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidat : 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
 Table de version :
 *** 2.24.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Ne dessine pas correctement les caractères.
Does not draw characters correctly.

Est-ce un bogue de conception du PDF ou un bogue de evince?
Is it a bug in the PDF file or a evince bug?

Évidemment, aucun bogue avec Adobe Reader - Windows.
Obviouly, no bug with Adobe Reader - Windows.

Voir fichier ci-joint.
See attached file.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
Package: evince 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64

Tags: apport-bug
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Benoit Pruneau (bpruneau) wrote :
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

could you attach the pdf file to the report? and please report only in english, thanks in advance.

Changed in evince:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Benoit Pruneau (bpruneau) wrote :

This is the PDF file...

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Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout) wrote :

pdf file attached, switching back to new

Changed in evince:
status: Incomplete → New
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Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout) wrote :

can confirm this. xpdf-reader also renders it wrong, acroread renders it correctly. will investigate further...

Changed in evince:
status: New → Confirmed
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Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout) wrote :

the pdf contains some embedded Myriad_Pro fonts, and some non-embedded Arial fonts.
reassigning to poppler for now, but could be pango/freetype/fontconfig...

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In , Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug has been opened on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330438

"http://launchpadlibrarian.net/22731447/Capture.jpg

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/22746175/ResourceServlet.pdf
This is the PDF file...

xpdf-reader also renders it wrong, acroread renders it correctly"

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The bug has been sent on https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20486

Changed in poppler:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in poppler:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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In , Albert Astals Cid (aacid) wrote :

Not our bug, get a newer freetype version at it'll be correctly rendered.

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Changed in poppler:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout) wrote :

the upstream report was refused with "NOTOURBUG", they claim that a newer version of freetype should solve this

the issue still exists in latest jaunty, with libfreetype6 version 2.3.7-2ubuntu1 (2.3.7 was released 29.06.2008), while latest stable freetype is 2.3.8, since 14.01.2009 (http://www.freetype.org/index2.html)

any chance of upgrading? should I open a new bug report for this?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

upstream says that's a freetype issue fixed in newer version, confirming that freetype 2.3.8 fixes the rendering bug

Changed in poppler:
assignee: desktop-bugs → nobody
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Changed in freetype:
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package freetype - 2.3.9-3

---------------
freetype (2.3.9-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Drop spurious Suggests: on libfreetype6-dev. Closes: #363937.
  * debian/patches-freetype/enable-subpixel-rendering.patch: enable subpixel
    rendering features, used by libcairo and xft to provide LCD colour
    filtering. This is considered no more or less evil than the bytecode
    interpreter which we also enable.
  * Move debian/libfreetype6.copyright to debian/copyright, and selectively
    install it to the single binary package in debian/rules; the same
    copyright file is used for all the binaries anyway via symlinks, so
    there's no reason it shouldn't ship as debian/copyright.
    Closes: #381228.
  * Clip redundant LICENSE.TXT and GPL.TXT files from the
    libfreetype6-dev package. Closes: #459802.

freetype (2.3.9-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/rules: bump the shlibs version, since 2.3.9 introduces a handful
    of new symbols
  * debian/libfreetype6.symbols: add a new symbols file, which should cause
    most packages to have relaxed dependencies of libfreetype6 now.

freetype (2.3.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version; closes: #519168.
    * fixes a SIGFPE in evince when displaying some PDFs. Closes: #494350,
      LP: #277294.
    * fix a rendering issue with embedded Myriad_Pro fonts in some PDFs.
      LP: #330438.
    * fix a rendering issue with some glyphs not rendering in PDFs when
      an embedded font uses CID 0. LP: #252250.
    * drop patches-freetype/no-segfault-on-load_mac_face, included
      upstream.
    * patches-ft2demos/ft2demos-2.1.7-ftbench.patch: drop unused
      patch chunk
  * fix up the get-orig-source target to autodetect the upstream version
    using the changelog by default.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:54:19 +0000

Changed in freetype:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Changed in poppler:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Invalid → Won't Fix
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Changed in poppler:
importance: Medium → Unknown
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in poppler:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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