Bug 320486

Summary: display defects in some zoom levels
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: nazgul17 <nazgul17>
Component: generalAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: minor CC: aacid
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.16.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=15kile&s=5
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: A pdf file showing the problem
The image I linked, in case it is deleted

Description nazgul17@gmail.com 2013-05-30 14:16:37 UTC
If I compile LaTeX formulas in a pdf such as

\begin{equation}
\operatorname{util} = \overbrace{\alpha A + \beta B}^{\mbox{gains}} \overbrace{- \gamma C - \delta D}^{\mbox{costs}} \overbrace{- \epsilon E - \eta F}^{\mbox{penalties}}
\end{equation} 


\begin{equation}
d = \sqrt{\frac{123}{abc}} \cdot l
\end{equation}


there are imperfections visible or invisible, depending on the level of zoom. If I open the same file with Adobe Reader this does not happen.


In the image I attached, you can see at the attachment of the "pieces" of the horizontal curly brackets there are imperfections, and the same holds for the square root symbol.

I know this is a minor problem, but just to let you aware of it...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. compile the pdf file with pdflatex
2. open it
3. zoom in and out to see the imperfections appear and disappear
Actual Results:  
imperfections due to zooming interpolation (I guess) appear

Expected Results:  
Perfect symbols
Comment 1 nazgul17@gmail.com 2013-05-30 14:17:46 UTC
Created attachment 80182 [details]
A pdf file showing the problem
Comment 2 nazgul17@gmail.com 2013-05-30 14:18:31 UTC
Created attachment 80183 [details]
The image I linked, in case it is deleted
Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2013-05-30 21:34:49 UTC
We don't do pdf rendering, poppler library does, so in any case this is a poppler bug. 

Someone recently posted https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64855 which appears to be similar, feel free to create a new bug in poppler about this.