[Okular-devel] Okular failed to show characters

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Wed Aug 25 20:30:24 CEST 2010


A Dimecres, 25 d'agost de 2010, ddreamer at ms93.url.com.tw va escriure:
> Hi, I am using Okular 0.10.2 under Ubuntu 10.04 with GNOME desktop
> environemnt.
> 
> Okular failed to show the following two PDF files:
> 
> http://www.nctu.edu.tw/intro/intro70.pdf (This is a map for school campus.
> There must be Chinese characters in the building blocks and in the roads)
> 
> http://www.thsrc.com.tw/event/88relief/file/88relief_form.pdf (all Chinese
> characters in the form are gone in Okular)
> 
> They are correctly shown by Xpdf ver.3.02
> 
> According to one responder in the mail list of poppler, poppler is not to
> blame after his testing.
> 
> 
> 
> Another information from him is that
> 
> poppler-qt4 has a switch to enable hinting in all fonts in a document
> (disabled by default), but Okular does not touch the switch.
> 
> This led to breaking of Chinese characters in the following hyperlinks:
> 
> http://www.crossstrait.nccu.edu.tw/download/download2_4.pdf
> 
> http://psroc.phys.ntu.edu.tw/bimonth/v27/395.pdf (title and subtitle
> characters are good but the content characters are bad)
> 
> Again, they are correctly shown by Xpdf ver.3.02.

I am the maintainer of both poppler and Okular, no need to inform us of 
anything, but thanks for making sure we are in the loop.

Albert

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