[Bug 26118] Re: Bad rendering (hinting) in Evince and Xpdf
Marciano Siniscalchi
msiniscalchi at gmail.com
Wed Mar 28 15:25:43 UTC 2007
It's not the same bug. The document you attached uses Type 3 fonts,
which in theory are drawn using Postscript (not PDF) primitives, but
in practice are just bitmaps. Ghostview and Acrobad do a fine job with
these, but poppler-based readers don't handle them well at all.
The issue being discussed here only pertains to Type 1 fonts.
So, unfortunately, I'm afraid your best bet for non-atrocious
rendering is Acroread (yech!)
M
On 3/28/07, Jens Ropers <ropers at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know if this is related, but I'm also seeing absolutely
> atrocious font rendering with some PDF files in evince.
>
> gpdf renders the same PDFs much better, but appears to use different
> fonts and ignore settings such as "bold".
>
> Please see the following two screenshot for comparison. Yes, this is the
> same document, in evince and in gpdf on Ubuntu 6.10.
>
> ** Attachment added: "Evince pdf screenshot"
> http://librarian.launchpad.net/7035137/Screenshot.evince.png
>
> --
> Bad rendering (hinting) in Evince and Xpdf
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/26118
>
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Marciano Siniscalchi
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Bad rendering (hinting) in Evince and Xpdf
https://launchpad.net/bugs/26118
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