[cairo] Awful PDF output from Evince

Adrian Johnson ajohnson at redneon.com
Tue Dec 1 14:14:51 PST 2009


Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 11/26/2009 05:32 PM, Adrian Johnson wrote:
>> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>> No, on the contrary: it includes thousands of small fallback images,
>>> typically a few pixels wide and high!
>> This looks like it is printing each Type 3 glyph as an image. This was a
>> bug that was fixed in poppler 0.12.0 when I made poppler-cairo use user
>> fonts for Type 3 fonts. It works for me using poppler master.
> 
> I updated to poppler master.  That fixed the print issue, but then evince 
> renders those Type3 fonts unreadably distorted and pixelated.  Have not 
> debugged it yet.

Works fine for me using either the versions in Ubuntu 9.10 or with 
evince/poppler/cairo master.



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