Bug 243173

Summary:	Okular doesn't support subpixel hinted text
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy>
Component:	PDF backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	rulatir
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Clemens Eisserer 2010-06-29 16:47:01 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

As the title says, Okular only semms to support grayscale text antialiasing - which on LCD displays has lower quality than subpixel antialiasing (supported by GTK and KDE/QT).

It would be really great if Okular would be able to support subpixel antialiased text, as the commercial pdf readers (Foxit Reader for Linux, Adobe Acrobat) do.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2010-06-29 19:46:53 UTC

Not an okular bug, it's poppler (the library we use to render pdf) that needs to support subpixel hinted text.

Comment 2 Szczepan Hołyszewski 2012-07-08 19:54:26 UTC

This should be "RESOLVED/UPSTREAM", not "RESOLVED/INVALID". The phenomenological observation that Okular doesn't in fact display PDF text with subpixel antialiasing is in and of itself perfectly valid.