[poppler] Broken embedded chinese characters

[mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp]

Hi Agus,

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:03:22 +0000
Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>> Please enlighten me why this happens and how to fix it.
>
>And now the obvious question:
> * Have you installed the poppler-data package?

I want to add another obvious question:
* Which FreeType2 is used by poppler in your system?

--

I guess the trouble is caused by TrueType hints in
some Chinese fonts (e.g. MingLiU bundled to MS
Windows is well known font that is unreadably rasterized
when TrueType hints are simply ignored). The cygwin
screenshots taken on 2006 were such.

http://gyvern.ipc.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~mpsuzuki/MingLiU_HintOff.jpeg
http://gyvern.ipc.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~mpsuzuki/MingLiU_HintOn.jpeg

Recent FreeType2 improves the quality even if built
without patented TrueType hinting. Please check
FreeType2 version and its configuration on your system.
The latest FreeType2 is 2.3.12.

Regards,
mpsuzuki