Bug#280791: kpdf: failes to display 16-bit TrueType fonts (such as Japanese).
Package: kpdf
Version: 4:3.3.1-1
Severity: normal
Kpdf fails to display PDF files that contain Japanese charactors; the
pages shown looks cryptographic because of wrong handling of 16-bit
TrueType fonts. While, with xpdf, they are OK to be viewed.
This is because xpdf portion of kpdf is not well-patched, even though
the xpdf package has been already patched. (As for xpdf's patch,
see the changelog of xpdf 3.00-3 at
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/xpdf/xpdf_3.00-3/changelog .
You'll see Hamish has added "upstream patch to fix handling of 16-bit
TrueType fonts".)
Enclosed is a file of collective patches extracted from Debian's xpdf
package.
Notice that the patch file contains the one that fixes another bug of
kpdf's; a fix for possible crash of kpdf caused by calling FreeType's
FT_Decompose_Outline with a non-outline object. (As for this bug, see
BTS #254864 and, as well, the changelog of xpdf 3.00-8 at
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/xpdf/xpdf_3.00-8/changelog
for more detail.)
The PDF files with which I've examined the patches are:
(1) http://www.firstserver.co.jp/pdf/news041015.pdf
(2) http://www.hatena.ne.jp/tools/041023_revised_rules.pdf
(both are Japanese)
Thank you for your attention.
Regards,
Haru
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5.tp13
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.eucJP, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP
Versions of packages kpdf depends on:
ii kdelibs4 4:3.3.1-1 KDE core libraries
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-5 client library to control the FAM
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.2-3 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.5.2-3 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpng12-0 1.2.7-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.3-5 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libt1-5 5.0.2-3 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-1 compression library - runtime
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