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Bug 60795 - gpdf has problems displaying some fonts
Summary: gpdf has problems displaying some fonts
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 40246
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] GNOME (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Low normal
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team
URL: http://www.iosn.net/training/end-user...
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Reported: 2004-08-18 10:34 UTC by Hal Eisen
Modified: 2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
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Runtime testing required: ---

Attachments
Screenshot showing font problem (gpdf-screenshot.png,136.70 KB, image/png)
2004-08-18 10:35 UTC, Hal Eisen 		Details
Offending file (linux-userguide1.pdf,434.77 KB, application/pdf)
2004-08-18 15:27 UTC, Hal Eisen 		Details
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Description Hal Eisen 2004-08-18 10:34:19 UTC 
For some PDF files, gpdf does not display certain fonts, instead filling in boxes for each glyph.  These same files are displayed properly by xpdf.  I'm including a screenshot.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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$ etcat -v gpdf
[ Results for search key           : gpdf ]
[ Candidate applications found : 4 ]

 Only printing found installed programs.

*  app-text/gpdf :
        [   ] 0.112 (0)
        [   ] 0.112.1 (0)
        [   ] 0.131 (0)
        [  I] 0.132 (0)

$ emerge info
Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.7)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7 i686 Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X aalib acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dvd
encode esd evo foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java
jbig jfs jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls
oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline
reiserfs sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms
xv zlib"
Comment 1 Hal Eisen 2004-08-18 10:35:08 UTC 
Created attachment 37671 [details]
Screenshot showing font problem
Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-08-18 14:09:49 UTC 
it would be more useful if you attached the document.
Comment 3 Hal Eisen 2004-08-18 15:27:40 UTC 
Created attachment 37698 [details]
Offending file

Though other files exhibit the behavior, too.
Comment 4 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-08-19 08:15:03 UTC 
works for me with 2.7 series

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40246 ***