[Bug 769827] Re: poppler cannot parse font weight "Medium"

[Rolf Leggewie]

Nobuto-San, I think you've already done all you can (and more).  The
next steps that I see are to get the patch applied to natty and then
hopefully backported to at least lucid.  But that's out of your and my
reach, we need to wait for sponsors to pick it up which I'm sure they
will soon.

** Changed in: poppler (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: poppler (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Changed in: poppler (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-11.04

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Title:
  poppler cannot parse font weight "Medium"

Status in “poppler” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  poppler library cannot parse font weight "Medium".
  Therefore in Japanese(ja) locale, characters which are not font-embedded but specified as "GothicBBB" are shown as squares and not readable.
  See attached screenshot.
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/769827/+attachment/2086084/+files/actual.png

  GothicBBB is widely used as Japanese sans-serif(gothic) font. It has
  the full name "GothicBBB-Medium-Identity-{H,V}" in properties window
  on such as Evince. But poppler library cannot parse "Medium" string,
  so does not hit <string>GothicBBB</string> in fontconfig settings on
  /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-language-selector-ja-jp.conf.

  On the other hand, Ryumin which is widely used as Japanese
  serif(mincho) font has the name "Ryumin-Light-Identity-{H,V}", but
  does hit <string>Ryumin</string>.

  How to reproduce:
   1. intall Ubuntu in Japanese(ja) locale
   2. confirm poppler-data, ttf-takao-{mincho,gothic} installed and "/etc/fonts/conf.d/69-language-selector-ja-jp.conf -> /etc/fonts/conf.avail/69-language-selector-ja-jp.conf" symlink created.
   3. open attached PDF file
      https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/769827/+attachment/2086089/+files/g_non_emb.pdf

  Expected:
   all characters are showed properly
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/769827/+attachment/2086087/+files/expected.png

  Actual:
   upper-right characters which are specified as GothicBBB are showed as squares
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/769827/+attachment/2086084/+files/actual.png

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: poppler-utils 0.16.4-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun Apr 24 10:09:07 2011
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110423)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=ja_JP:en
   LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: poppler
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)