#879979 xpdf: debian's xpdf messes up fonts and kerning to the point text becomes very hard to read

Package:
xpdf
Source:
xpdf
Description:
Motif-based PDF reader using the Poppler library
Submitter:
Attila Kinali
Date:
2021-03-04 17:27:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#879979#5
Date:
2017-10-27 21:34:08 UTC
From:
To:
Debian's version of xpdf does something weird with fonts in quite a few
documents. It seems to grab the wrong font and then applies the wrong
kerning, making the text very hard to read. The same file rendered with
xpdf compiled from upstreams source works fine and renders the text correctly.
Attached are to pngs that show the difference in rendering.


Attila Kinali
#879979#10
Date:
2021-03-04 17:24:47 UTC
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To:
Hi Attila,

this does indeed look weird. But does it still occur for you with recent
versions of xpdf in Debian (preferably 3.04+git20210103-1 or newer)? And
if so, can you provide a PDF where others can try to reproduce the
issue, and the contents of you .xpdfrc, plese?

Florian