On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 13:21 -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: > I've stumbled over various rendering problems with evince before, and mostly > just lived with them. One such example is the data sheet for the Linear > Technologies LTC1682 charge pump regulator IC, in which the text labels on > the schematic at the bottom of page one render some weird glyph instead of > the expected symbol for 'micro'. Both xpdf and acroread get it right: > > http://www.linear.com/pc/downloadDocument.do?navId=H0,C1,C1003,C1039,C1 > 133,P1747,D1952
This document looks fine to me, using evince from experimental and poppler 0.8.7-1, but I might have overlooked something. > Today, however, I stumbled over a document that evince fails to render in a > much more dramatic and devastating way, that again both xpdf and acroread > handle just fine: > > http://www.jst-mfg.com/product/pdf/eng/ePH.pdf > > In this datasheet for a JST 2mm connector series, all of the text for > dimensions in the mechanical drawings, and most of the dimensional text in > the tables, fails to render at all. No visible errors or warnings, the image > is just displayed without the associated text. > > On this document, xpdf streams errors like this in the invoking shell window: > > Error: Unknown character collection 'Adobe-Japan1' > > However, the resulting rendering is virtually identical to the rendering from > acroread, and completely useable. Does this work if you install poppler-data (from non-free?). -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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