[Bug 48146] Poor font rendering in kpdf

[Logan Lewis]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: kpdf

For Kubuntu 6.06 and 5.10 (can't speak for earlier releases), kpdf font
rendering is of poor quality.  Strangely, xpdf renders the same document
at the same zoom level much better.  The text in kpdf is still readable,
but some characters will seem more "bold" than others, and overall it
just isn't as readable when zoomed out.

I've also compared screenshots of the rendering with that done by kpdf
under FC4, which looks much better.  I'm really puzzled about what the
cause of the difference might be.  I found some old bugs in the KDE
repository a few months ago that indicated an old version of truetype
was causing some more severe rendering problems, but this particular
issue persists in Kubuntu 6.06.  I also considered that it might be a
font server at work in Fedora, but that doesn't explain why xpdf would
render properly.

For reference, I was using the nvidia binary driver under both Kubuntu
and FC4, and the FC4 install has used KDE 3.4 and 3.5, none of which
exhibited a rendering problem.

I'd be happy to provide screenshots or do other testing.

** Affects: kdegraphics (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Poor font rendering in kpdf
https://launchpad.net/bugs/48146