Public bug reported:
poppler library cannot parse font weight "Medium".
Therefore in Japanese(ja) locale, characters which are not font-embedded but
specified as "GothicBBB" are shown as squares and not readable.
See attached screenshot.
GothicBBB is widely used as Japanese sans-serif(gothic) font. It has the
full name "GothicBBB-Medium-Identity-{H,V}" in properties window on such
as Evince. But poppler library cannot parse "Medium" string, so does not
hit <string>GothicBBB</string> in fontconfig settings on
/etc/fonts/conf.d/69-language-selector-ja-jp.conf.
On the other hand, Ryumin which is widely used as Japanese serif(mincho)
font has the name "Ryumin-Light-Identity-{H,V}", but does hit
<string>Ryumin</string>.
How to reproduce:
1. intall Ubuntu in Japanese(ja) locale
2. confirm poppler-data, ttf-takao-{mincho,gothic} installed and
"/etc/fonts/conf.d/69-language-selector-ja-jp.conf ->
/etc/fonts/conf.avail/69-language-selector-ja-jp.conf" symlink created.
3. open attached PDF file
Expected:
all characters are showed properly
Actual:
upper-right characters which are specified as GothicBBB are showed as squares
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: poppler-utils 0.16.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 24 10:09:07 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110423)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=ja_JP:en
LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: poppler
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: poppler (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Assignee: Nobuto MURATA (nobuto)
Status: In Progress
** Tags: apport-bug i386 natty
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poppler cannot parse font weight "Medium"
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