[poppler] Wrong hinting

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dilluns, 14 de febrer de 2011, Cedric Sodhi va escriure:
> Hello list,
> 
> I've spent all night trying to resolve this problem without any success.
> I'll keep it short and hopefully clear.
> 
> The following screenshot depicts the problem:
> 
> http://ompldr.org/vN2V5Nw
> 
> In words: At a certain zoom level (or range thereof), in this particular
> case approximately 80% to exactly 111% the text looks crisp, completely
> mis-antialiased and hinted.
> 
> From 111% to 112% the text suddenly becomes strong and clearly readable.
> Below approximately 80% the text also becomes better readable.
> 
> The font in this document is embedded. You can find the document here:
> 
> http://ompldr.org/vN2V2ag/edited.pdf
> 
> Because it is embedded, changing Xft configuration does, provenly, have
> no effect on the rendering.
> 
> I failed to find any solution. This has been tested by multiple people
> with multiple poppler-based pdf viewers. There is no clear pattern to
> under which circumstances (meaning configuration - though all people
> allegedly used the default configuration) and with which exact readers
> this happens.
> 
> It has reportedly been working fine with ZATHURA and OKULAR. I do have
> the problem with ZATHURA and EPDFVIEW (could not try any other reader
> personally, yet).
> 
> Any hints to how to resolve this problem would be greatly appreciated.
> If you require further information or I've forgotten to provide
> important info, please reply either to the list or directly and I'll
> submit the required info to the list.

Works for me with both splash and cairo backends in poppler-0.16.

As a side note, it crashes in master in the cairo backend, Carlos et al can 
you have a look?

Albert

> 
> Thank you.
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