[Bug 506859] Re: Evince renders document with poor font quality despite font system-wide settings set to subpixel rendering

2010-01-31 Thread Albert Cardona
I have found another example PDF that renders very poorly: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/arvindn/misc/knuth_song_complexity.pdf In this case, selected text is readable and rendered smoothly and fine. Selecting text, though, selects also entire paragraphs for the adjacent text column (which

[Bug 506859] Re: Evince renders document with poor font quality despite font system-wide settings set to subpixel rendering

2010-01-31 Thread madbiologist
Still occurring on Ubuntu 10.04 alpha 2 updated to the latest version of poppler. Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic i686 Packages: evince 2.29.5-0ubuntu1 poppler 0.12.3-0ubuntu1 The issue described in comment #7 is a different bug, there is another bug somewhere already which deals with

[Bug 506859] Re: Evince renders document with poor font quality despite font system-wide settings set to subpixel rendering

2010-01-31 Thread Tobias Wolf
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 80921 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 By the way, your example document consist of scanned pages. There is no way to apply subpixel rendering to images. And the selection effect is caused by the normally invisible OCR layer. These journals simply

[Bug 506859] Re: Evince renders document with poor font quality despite font system-wide settings set to subpixel rendering

2010-01-31 Thread Albert Cardona
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 80921 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 Tobias: thanks. Would be nice if evince told me so somehow--how am I supposed to know, as a user, that the text is a badly scanned image with an OCR layer on top? -- Evince renders document with poor font

[Bug 506859] Re: Evince renders document with poor font quality despite font system-wide settings set to subpixel rendering

2010-01-31 Thread Tobias Wolf
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 80921 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 It is probably a good scan, but there’s unfortunately another bug in Poppler that scales grayscale and bitonal images poorly. It’s upstream at: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5589 You can look

[Bug 506859] Re: Evince renders document with poor font quality despite font system-wide settings set to subpixel rendering

2010-01-29 Thread madbiologist
** Changed in: poppler (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = New -- Evince renders document with poor font quality despite font system-wide settings set to subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/506859 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop

[Bug 506859] Re: Evince renders document with poor font quality despite font system-wide settings set to subpixel rendering

2010-01-29 Thread madbiologist
Confirmed on Lucid 10.04 alpha 2. Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic i686 Package: libpoppler5 0.12.2-2.1ubuntu3 ** Changed in: poppler (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- Evince renders document with poor font quality despite font system-wide settings set to subpixel rendering

[Bug 506859] Re: Evince renders document with poor font quality despite font system-wide settings set to subpixel rendering

2010-01-20 Thread Albert Cardona
It's a paper for which I don't have distribution rights: J Neurosci. 1995 Mar;15(3 Pt 1):1755-67. Merritt DJ, Whitington PM. Central projections of sensory neurons in the Drosophila embryo correlate with sensory modality, soma position, and proneural gene function.

[Bug 506859] Re: Evince renders document with poor font quality despite font system-wide settings set to subpixel rendering

2010-01-13 Thread Albert Cardona
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37842846/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37842847/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: ProcStatus.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37842848/ProcStatus.txt ** Attachment

[Bug 506859] Re: Evince renders document with poor font quality despite font system-wide settings set to subpixel rendering

2010-01-13 Thread Albert Cardona
Attached screenshots depicting the problem. ** Attachment added: Arial font problem in evince screenshot http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37842869/Arial-font-problem-in-evince.png -- Evince renders document with poor font quality despite font system-wide settings set to subpixel rendering

[Bug 506859] Re: Evince renders document with poor font quality despite font system-wide settings set to subpixel rendering

2010-01-13 Thread Albert Cardona
Font rendering problem when selecting text with Arial font. ** Attachment added: Font rendering problem when selecting text with Arial font. http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37842875/rendering-problem-with-selected-text.png -- Evince renders document with poor font quality despite font

[Bug 506859] Re: Evince renders document with poor font quality despite font system-wide settings set to subpixel rendering

2010-01-13 Thread Pedro Villavicencio
that's a poppler issue, could you attach the document to the report? Thanks. ** Package changed: evince (Ubuntu) = poppler (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: poppler (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Low ** Changed in: poppler (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete ** Changed in: poppler (Ubuntu)