Bug 184442

Summary: (latex) uneven font rendering
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins>
Component: PDF backendAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description Maciej Pilichowski 2009-02-15 20:07:25 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Wish/bug?

The problem is related to all pdf generated with latex.

Consider letter U, in kpdf I see vertical lines like
|  |
when I zoom in I see
||  ||
they are thicker.

In Okular it is different, it is always something like this:
||  |
one thick, one thin. Also the are other effects, like in small zoom, I see text quite clearly, I zoom in, and the quality is worse -- some lines (of the font) are super thick -- like horizontal dash in "e".

Only in huge zoom Okular quality is on par with kpdf.
Comment 1 Pino Toscano 2009-02-15 20:14:21 UTC 
Okular, unlike KPDF, does not render documents on its own anymore, but uses the Poppler library.

Please report the problem to the Poppler bug tracking system, https://bugs.freedesktop.org, "poppler" product.
Don't forget to attach a document showing the issue, and to provide the info about the version of your poppler library.
Comment 2 Maciej Pilichowski 2009-02-16 21:56:09 UTC 
Pino, thanks. See:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20143