[poppler] Wrong hinting

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

Excerpts from Albert Astals Cid's message of lun feb 14 01:43:19 +0100 2011:
> 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?

Fixed in git master now.

> Albert
> 
> > 
> > Thank you.
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