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



Package: xpdf
Version: 3.04-4+b1
Severity: normal

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

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.12.7 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages xpdf depends on:
ii  libc6         2.24-17
ii  libgcc1       1:7.2.0-5
ii  libpoppler68  0.57.0-2
ii  libstdc++6    7.2.0-5
ii  libx11-6      2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxm4        2.3.7-2
ii  libxt6        1:1.1.5-1

Versions of packages xpdf recommends:
ii  cups-bsd       2.2.4-7
ii  gsfonts-x11    0.24
ii  poppler-data   0.4.8-1
ii  poppler-utils  0.57.0-2

xpdf suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Attachment: original-xpdf.png
Description: PNG image

Attachment: debian-xpdf.png
Description: PNG image


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