Bug 332635 - PDF Rendering Artifact in okular of LaTeX Square-root Symbols
Summary: PDF Rendering Artifact in okular of LaTeX Square-root Symbols
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: PDF backend (show other bugs)
Version: 0.16.5
Platform: Gentoo Packages Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2014-03-26 15:52 UTC by SA
Modified: 2014-03-27 00:00 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Sample PDF. (116.31 KB, application/pdf)
2014-03-26 15:52 UTC, SA
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rendering (14.55 KB, application/octet-stream)
2014-03-26 23:29 UTC, Albert Astals Cid
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Screenshot of rendering of the same document at similar zoom, via google-chrome (23.36 KB, image/png)
2014-03-26 23:47 UTC, SA
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Description SA 2014-03-26 15:52:03 UTC
Created attachment 85767 [details]
Sample PDF.

I have noticed that the square-root expressions in PDFs generated with *TeX can end up looking very odd in okular at various zoom levels, while the same PDF viewed in e.g. the google-chrome PDF viewer are free of this artifact.

Attached a sample PDF page where the error is evident. An okular-generated raster image of the artifact is available here: http://i.imgur.com/ybHWkO1.png. Zoom was at 261.31% but is observed also at 350% among others.
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2014-03-26 23:29:50 UTC
Created attachment 85776 [details]
rendering
Comment 2 Albert Astals Cid 2014-03-26 23:31:00 UTC
So you mean the one pixel whitespace between the flat part of the root and the initial part of it, right?
Comment 3 SA 2014-03-26 23:47:32 UTC
Created attachment 85777 [details]
Screenshot of rendering of the same document at similar zoom, via google-chrome

Yes exactly. For comparison, I have attached a screenshot of a rendering of the same PDF from google-chrome's PDF viewer. I cannot adjust the zoom to the exact same level, but the artifact is not visible at any accessible zoom level in chrome.
Comment 4 Albert Astals Cid 2014-03-27 00:00:10 UTC
Ok, this rendering issues are not Okular's fault since we only show what the poppler library produces. Please open a bug upstream at https://bugs.freedesktop.org