Bug 438688

Summary:	<x11-libs/cairo-1.12.6 type1 font parsing bugs lead to app-text/evince pdf printing garbage output
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Thomas Witt <bugs>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Ben de Groot (RETIRED) <yngwin>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	gnome, x11
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PATCH
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686324
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	screenshot of the print preview window pdf example new example Output from 'print to file' (second example)

Description Thomas Witt 2012-10-17 09:19:13 UTC

When I print the attached pdf (or any other one using the nexus font) the characters of each entire line get placed on top of each other. This is even visible in the print preview.

Printing the same pdf from the hplip Device Manager directly it works as expected. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open attached test.pdf in evince
2. press print, print preview

Comment 1 Thomas Witt 2012-10-17 09:20:15 UTC

Created attachment 326756 [details]
screenshot of the print preview window

Comment 2 Thomas Witt 2012-10-17 09:21:44 UTC

Created attachment 326758 [details]
pdf example

Comment 3 Thomas Witt 2012-10-17 09:34:01 UTC

Another example can be found in
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688028

Comment 4 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-10-17 18:49:56 UTC

Confirmed both with evince-3.4.0 and 3.6.1, and reported upstream at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686324

Comment 5 Thomas Witt 2012-10-18 07:52:58 UTC

Created attachment 326810 [details]
new example

I installed cairo-9999 and that made it much better, the character spacing works now, but I'm still getting the little box instead of the page number and the equation-counter.

Comment 6 Thomas Witt 2012-10-18 07:53:38 UTC

Created attachment 326812 [details]
Output from 'print to file' (second example)

Comment 7 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-10-18 16:24:16 UTC

@cairo maintainers, please add the following two patches from upstream git:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit/?id=cffbdf50ce0117d62d6e157369c60e4a8572fd21
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit/?id=599e78ea2ee146c74fc7ffcee32a055dabbefdda

Applying these two patches to cairo-1.12.2-r4 fixes the issue with incorrect character placement in pdf printing from evince.

Comment 8 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2012-10-31 23:12:55 UTC

1.12.6 is now in CVS.