Bug 171365

Summary:	special pronounciation characters (pdf) not shown in okular
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Paul van Erk <parena>
Component:	PDF backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	original document screenshot in case you cannot view the original document properly

Description Paul van Erk 2008-09-20 09:52:29 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

My wife recently started a study English Philology. When opening a certain PDF in okular, she was missing characters. The character in question looks like a question mark, but without space between the top part and the dot (will attach files). On the same system, kpdf of KDE3.5 shows the characters without problem. Also, uploading the PDF to Google Docs, you can see the characters. I'd rather not install kpdf or acrobat reader on her notebook, due to all the dependencies (it's a KDE4 only notebook now). Please check the files (original PDF and screenshot).

Comment 1 Paul van Erk 2008-09-20 09:55:05 UTC

Created attachment 27489 [details]
original document

This is the original document. Works in KDE3 kpdf, Google docs and Acrobat Reader (Windows).

Comment 2 Paul van Erk 2008-09-20 09:56:16 UTC

Created attachment 27490 [details]
screenshot in case you cannot view the original document properly

Here you see the sort of question mark without a space. This is how okular should show the character, just like kpdf, Google docs and Acrobat Reader (Windows) do.

Comment 3 Pino Toscano 2008-09-20 10:11:20 UTC

Problem confirmed.

Although, Okular does not render PDF documents on its own, but uses a 3rd party library called Poppler.
Given that the problem is in that library, please report a bug for it: https://bugs.freedesktop.org, "poppler" product.

Thanks for understanding.

Comment 4 Paul van Erk 2008-09-25 15:15:25 UTC

FYI: Will be fixed in poppler >= 0.9.3 (that's the RC2 for 0.10):
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17763