[poppler] junk displayed if fonts not embedded

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Sat Feb 4 10:17:53 PST 2006


A Divendres 03 Febrer 2006 10:01, Rod Butcher va escriure:
> I've built poppler and evince from cvs head on a Mandrake 10.2 box,
> x.org 6.9 stable.
> I find consistently that for documents where fonts are not embedded,
> junk is displayed, i.e. poppler / evince doesn't get the fonts from my
> system, even if they are installed.
> Bug 5255 seems to describe this same problem.
> Is there documentation available about how poppler accesses fonts from
> the host system if they are not embedded in the document ? Any specific
> requirements for making these fonts available to poppler ?
> It doesn't seem a build issue as I get the same problem with rpms
> Mandrake builds.
> Thanks
> Rod

To make it short, poppler 0.5.0 uses fontconfig, and has some problems, you 
should not use it as it was a stable release because it is not ;-)

I'm trying to sort the fontconfig problems.

Albert

		
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