Bug 471080

Summary:	Okular fails to draw smooth text's outlines with Poppler backend
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	medin <med.medin.2014>
Component:	PDF backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	23.04.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Attachments:	Okular fails to draw smooth text's outlines with Poppler backend

Description medin 2023-06-15 15:18:53 UTC

Created attachment 159693 [details]
Okular fails to draw smooth text's outlines with Poppler backend

Okular, with Poppler as backend, seems to generate bad outlines for many fonts, I tested the same file with MuPDF backend but it looks fine with it. I raised the bug to Poppler and they told me to generate ppm from pdf file using pdftoppm tool then verify the output, and it seems Poppler generates correctly the outlines. See attached files for more info.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1405