Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software
On 2018-01-23, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <I.M.Ciobica@upcmail.nl> wrote:
> On 22-01-2018, at 18h 28'13", Greg Marks wrote about "PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software"
>> I have encountered a peculiar situation where a PDF file displays as
>> gibberish with certain PDF viewers but displays correctly with others.
>> [...]
>> numerous "Missing or bad Type3 CharProc entry" syntax errors) followed by
>> [...]
>
> I encounter similar issue with my bank statements... xpdf will not
> show any glyphs, only lines and logo, same as okular; gv on the other
> hand will show everything. The pdf files are version 1.4. Funny is
> that older files (still 1.4) will show fine with xpdf and okular. Only
> newer ones have this issue... xpdf will spit out few hundreds times
> Syntax Error: "Missing or bad Type3 CharProc entry".
Same problem here with bank statements (recent bank statements unviewable in
xpdf but viewable in evince).
(Actually it appears the pdfs viewable in xpdf are 'PDF document, version 1.4'
and the pdfs that are not are 'PDF document, version 1.7' according to 'file'.)
> I can't ping point the difference between the older files and the
> newer ones, except the size. The newer ones are more than twice the
Seems to be a pinpointable difference here.
Old bank statement:
curty@einstein:~/releve$ pdffonts dec2014.pdf
name type emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
Times-Roman Type 1 no no no 8 0
Helvetica Type 1 no no no 7 0
Helvetica-Bold Type 1 no no no 5 0
Courier Type 1 no no no 9 0
New bank statement:
curty@einstein:~/releve$ pdffonts dec2017.pdf
name type emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
[none] Type 3 yes no no 10 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 11 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 12 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 13 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 14 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 15 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 16 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 17 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 18 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 19 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 20 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 21 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 22 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 23 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 26 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 27 0
The OP's pdf shows a slew of Type 3 fonts also.
I read installing 'cm-super' might magically fix things so I did, but it didn't
(although I believe the output of pdffonts on the cklppaper.pdf changed
afterwards with some of the Type 3 fonts subsisted with Type 1--is that
possible)?
Anyhow I'm a blind man trying to lead the sighted.
(PS: Seems like all the math more or less renders in xpdf when viewing 'cklppaper.pdf'
here.)
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