Bug 101520

Summary: Missing characters in rendered PDF file
Product: [Applications] kpdf Reporter: Wilbert Berendsen <wbsoft>
Component: generalAssignee: Albert Astals Cid <aacid>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: the pdf file
a screenshot

Description Wilbert Berendsen 2005-03-14 22:31:58 UTC 
Version:           0.4 (using KDE 3.4.0, Gentoo)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.11-gentoo-r1

When displaying the attached PDF file in KPDF 3.4.0-rc1, some characters are missing, see the attached screenshot.

In the normal font the 'z' and 'Z' are missing, in the bold font also 'a', 'A', 'd' and 'D'.

The file was created with ps2pdf from a psfile created by Music Publisher (mup).
Comment 1 Wilbert Berendsen 2005-03-14 22:33:14 UTC 
Created attachment 10116 [details]
the pdf file
Comment 2 Wilbert Berendsen 2005-03-14 22:34:46 UTC 
Created attachment 10117 [details]
a screenshot
Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2005-03-14 23:04:07 UTC 
Strange i can see them but some other people can reproduce your problem, i'll investigate it
Comment 4 Albert Astals Cid 2005-03-14 23:22:49 UTC 
Are you by any chance using freetype 2.1.7?
Comment 5 Wilbert Berendsen 2005-03-15 08:05:01 UTC 
no, I'm using freetype 2.1.5 :-)
Comment 6 Wilbert Berendsen 2005-03-15 08:58:58 UTC 
Upgrading freetype to 2.1.9 fixed the problem!

Thanks for the supercool KPDF, it really rocks, it's a killer app for KDE!
Imagine being able to just hit Ctrl-Shift-P and view a presentation right from Konqueror. Also the quickness of rendering and scrolling is fantastic. Thanks again :)
Comment 7 Albert Astals Cid 2005-03-15 10:45:37 UTC 
Marking as fixed because we can't do anything with freetype having "bad" handling of type1 fonts on older versions
Comment 8 Wilbert Berendsen 2005-03-15 14:54:51 UTC 
You could create a configure-time dependency on freetype >= 2.1.9.
Comment 9 Albert Astals Cid 2005-03-15 16:04:12 UTC 
The problem is that very few pdf have problems with old freetype (mostly the ones that use Type1 fonts instead of TTF) and forcing everyone to use 2.1.9 seems a bad idea if most pdf can be seen correctly with older too