[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 20143] New: uneven font rendering

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20143

           Summary: uneven font rendering
           Product: poppler
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: qt4 frontend
        AssignedTo: poppler-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: macias at mat.uni.torun.pl


Comes from:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184442

Wish/bug?

The problem is related to all pdf generated with latex.

Consider letter U, in kpdf I see vertical lines like
|  |
when I zoom in I see
||  ||
they are thicker.

In Okular it is different, it is always something like this:
||  |
one thick, one thin. Also the are other effects, like in small zoom, I see text
quite clearly, I zoom in, and the quality is worse -- some lines (of the font)
are super thick -- like horizontal dash in "e".

Only in huge zoom Okular quality is on par with kpdf.

Ss follows, note the in first ss the small letter "s", how ugly this is
rendered. In zoom in compare okular and kpdf -- letter "a", in kpdf the "a" is
"open", when in okular "a" is almost closed.

Btw. now I see that poppler is based on xpdf, and xpdf had bad rendering since
I remember, so it is not new problem (i.e. related to this or that frontend).


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