Bug 515671

Summary: Displaying pdf some symbols (here squares) are not displayed
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: Michael Monkenbusch <michael.monkenbusch>
Component: generalAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: aacid
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 25.08.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Plot showing 2 data sets one with circles and one with squares as symbols

Description Michael Monkenbusch 2026-02-07 09:48:51 UTC
Created attachment 189323 [details]
Plot showing 2 data sets one with circles and one with squares as symbols

SUMMARY
When plots created as pdf by using routines from gr_framework some symbols (I this noticed for squares and diamonds) are not displyed. The same is observed in gimp. While gv and dragging bthe file into libre_office  or displaying with firefox shows the missing symbols.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Try to display the attached pdf plot with ocular and compare with the display of eg- firefox!
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OBSERVED RESULT


EXPECTED RESULT


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
Linux/KDE Plasma:  Tuxedo OS
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2026-02-08 23:13:36 UTC
This is a problem in poppler the pdf rendering library we use (you can verify it because pdftoppm, the poppler command line rendering program, has the same problem.

Please open a bug at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues