Bug 104604

Summary: KPDF doesn't display correctly a PDF file with accentuated caracters
Product: [Unmaintained] kpdf Reporter: FACORAT Fabrice <f.faber-pro>
Component: generalAssignee: Albert Astals Cid <aacid>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Mandriva RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
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Attachments: PDF file which is incorrectly displayed
screenshot showing KPDF display bug and KPDF version

Description FACORAT Fabrice 2005-04-26 19:19:03 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    Mandriva RPMs
OS:                Linux

KPDF doesn't display correctly a PDF file with accentuated caracters.
For example instead of reading "récapitulative", i have "r capitulative"

However the issue may be more complex.

1. XPDF doesn't show the PDF correctly
2. the PDF is not shown correctly by ghostview/kghostview
3. pdf2ps failed to convert this PDF
4. pdftops convert it in PDF but the content is incorrect

here is pdf2ps output :
[admin@info1 commun]$ pdf2ps MatV16m.pdf /tmp/test.pdf
Error: /undefined in --get--
Operand stack:
   --dict:4/4(L)--   F1   16   --dict:9/14(L)--   --dict:12/16(ro)(L)--   --dict:9/14(L)--   0.001   --dict:9/14(L)--   FirstChar
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   1   1   --nostringval--   %for_pos_int_continue   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   %array_continue   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   %loop_continue   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1115/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:85/200(L)--   --dict:85/200(L)--   --dict:104/127(ro)(G)--   --dict:241/347(ro)(G)--   --dict:20/24(L)--   --dict:4/6(L)--   --dict:26/31(L)--   --dict:4/4(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
ESP Ghostscript 815.00: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
Comment 1 FACORAT Fabrice 2005-04-26 19:20:31 UTC 
Created attachment 10801 [details]
PDF file which is incorrectly displayed

PDF file which is incorrectly displayed. You should have :
Fiche récapitulative
€uros
Maître
4éme trimestre
Comment 2 FACORAT Fabrice 2005-05-01 05:13:05 UTC 
Xpdf author acknowledge me this will be fixed in xpdf 3.1 which should be release shortly.
Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2005-08-18 20:49:05 UTC 
Will be fixed in KDE 3.5
Comment 4 FACORAT Fabrice 2005-08-24 20:59:08 UTC 
Albert, would you mind pointing me to the patch solving the bug ?
Mandriva KDE teams is willing to see it in order to see if there's a possibility to backport it to KDE 3.4.
http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17728
Comment 5 Albert Astals Cid 2005-08-24 21:51:12 UTC 
Well, that's not easy to backport as the patch that fixed that is the xpdf 3.01 merging in kpdf codebase that means a HUGE patch, you can get it doing

svn diff svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/3.5/kdegraphics/kpdf -r 450654:450655 

But i'd suggesting using KPDF from the 3.5 branch and not trying to use 3.4 branch + that huge patch
Comment 6 FACORAT Fabrice 2005-08-26 17:11:45 UTC 
Laurent Montel from Mandriva have include KPDF 3.5 in our KDE 3.4 package but the bug is not fixed and I still have the issue
Comment 7 FACORAT Fabrice 2005-08-26 17:14:08 UTC 
Created attachment 12388 [details]
screenshot showing KPDF display bug and KPDF version

screenshot showing KPDF display bug and KPDF version
Comment 8 Albert Astals Cid 2005-08-26 23:05:41 UTC 
Montel's KDE 3.5 checkout for kpdf may be old, that is fixed.