Bug 243173 - Okular doesn't support subpixel hinted text
Summary: Okular doesn't support subpixel hinted text
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: PDF backend (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR wishlist
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Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2010-06-29 16:47 UTC by Clemens Eisserer
Modified: 2012-07-08 19:54 UTC (History)
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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.