Bug#773668: [tex-live] Bug#773668: okular shows "jumping" letters in pdf documents generated using pdflatex with russian babel
> On Dec 21, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Askar Safin <safinaskar@mail.ru> wrote:
>
> Package: okular
> Version: 4:4.8.4-3+b1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: l10n
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> * Create the following file tex.tex:
> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> \usepackage[russian]{babel}
> \begin{document}
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed ...
> \end{document}
> * pdflatex tex.tex
> * okular tex.pdf
> * Adjust zoom until you will see ugly "jumping" letters (i. e. one letter is up, and the following letter in the same word is down). For example, on my laptop with screen resolution 1600 x 900 pixels and physical size
> 214.8 cm x 381.9 cm zoom 100 % will go
>
> What I see? Well, "jumping" letters. I see something like this: "LOrEm IpSum DOlOr SIT AmEt ...". See screenshot: http://picpaste.com/y-gh3PH69b.png .
>
> What I expected to see? Normal beautiful text.
>
> Including [russian]{babel} is mandatory to reproduce the bug. [english]{babel} will not go.
>
> But the text itself need not to be in Russian. You don't need even \usepackage[...]{inputenc}.
>
> latex tex.tex + okular tex.dvi - no bug.
>
> latex tex.tex + dvipdfm tex.dvi + okular tex.pdf - no bug.
>
> pdflatex tex.tex + okular tex.pdf - bug.
>
> pdflatex tex.tex + evince tex.pdf - no bug.
>
> pdflatex tex.tex + transfer this tex.pdf to Windows machine + open it with Adobe Reader on Windows - no bug.
>
> TeXLive version info:
> ii texlive-base 2012.20120611-5 all TeX Live: Essential programs and files
> ii texlive-binaries 2012.20120628-4 amd64 Binaries for TeX Live
> ii texlive-common 2012.20120611-5 all TeX Live: Base component
> ii texlive-doc-base 2012.20120611-1 all TeX Live: TeX Live documentation
> ii texlive-extra-utils 2012.20120611-2 all TeX Live: TeX auxiliary programs
> ii texlive-font-utils 2012.20120611-2 all TeX Live: Graphics and font utilities
> ii texlive-fonts-recommended 2012.20120611-5 all TeX Live: Recommended fonts
> ii texlive-generic-extra 2012.20120611-2 all TeX Live: Extra generic packages
> ii texlive-generic-recommended 2012.20120611-5 all TeX Live: Recommended generic packages
> ii texlive-lang-cyrillic 2012.20120611-2 all TeX Live: Cyrillic
> ii texlive-latex-base 2012.20120611-5 all TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages
> ii texlive-latex-extra 2012.20120611-2 all TeX Live: LaTeX supplementary packages
> ii texlive-latex-recommended 2012.20120611-5 all TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packages
> ii texlive-math-extra 2012.20120611-2 all TeX Live: Advanced math typesetting
> ii texlive-metapost 2012.20120611-5 all TeX Live: MetaPost (and Metafont) drawing packages
> ii texlive-pictures 2012.20120611-5 all TeX Live: Graphics packages and programs
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.7
> APT prefers stable-updates
> APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages okular depends on:
> ii kde-runtime 4:4.8.4-2
> ii libc6 2.18-4
> ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1.1
> ii libjpeg8 8d-1+deb7u1
> ii libkdecore5 4:4.8.4-4+deb7u1
> ii libkdeui5 4:4.8.4-4+deb7u1
> ii libkio5 4:4.8.4-4+deb7u1
> ii libkparts4 4:4.8.4-4+deb7u1
> ii libkprintutils4 4:4.8.4-4+deb7u1
> ii libkpty4 4:4.8.4-4+deb7u1
> ii libokularcore1 4:4.8.4-3+b1
> ii libphonon4 4:4.6.0.0-3
> ii libpoppler-qt4-3 0.18.4-6
> ii libqca2 2.0.3-4
> ii libqimageblitz4 1:0.0.6-4
> ii libqt4-dbus 4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
> ii libqt4-svg 4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
> ii libqt4-xml 4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
> ii libqtcore4 4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
> ii libqtgui4 4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
> ii libsolid4 4:4.8.4-4+deb7u1
> ii libspectre1 0.2.7-2
> ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-5
> ii phonon 4:4.6.0.0-3
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
>
> okular recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages okular suggests:
> ii ghostscript 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u1
> pn jovie <none>
> ii okular-extra-backends 4:4.8.4-3+b1
> ii poppler-data 0.4.5-10
> ii texlive-binaries 2012.20120628-4
> ii unrar 1:3.9.10-1
>
> -- no debconf information
Howdy,
No problems here with TeX Live 2014 under Mac OS X with latex (either ->dvips->ps2pdf or ->dvipdmx) or pdflatex. On the first run two fonts had to be built; I assume that is because of the \usepackage[russian]{babel}. No dvi viewer so always go to pdf.
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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