There is a particular PDF which fails to display Japanese glyphs (hiragana, katakana, and kanji), but only on Okular (see Additional Information and Steps to Reproduce). Copying a line of text and pasting into another program will not copy the Japanese glyphs, indicating that it is more than just a failure to render. The PDF displays properly in every other PDF viewer I tested with, leading me to conclude that it is a (rare) bug in Okular and not a bug in the PDF itself. I have included an imgur album of screenshots with descriptions. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download the PDF from this page: http://grammar.nihongoresources.com/doku.php#download_the_book_as_free_pdf 2. Open in Okular 3. Go to any page with Japanese text (Section 1.1.3 on page 6 is a good example) Actual Results: The English text is displayed, while Japanese text is not. There are obvious gaps in the lines where the Japanese text would be if it were rendered. Expected Results: I would expect the Japanese text to be rendered. I have opened many Japanese-language PDFs in Okular, and this is the only one to have given me problems. The PDF also renders properly in other viewers. So far, I have tested the following (all on the same PC): * Okular * Firefox's built-in PDF viewer * Master PDF Editor * Adobe Reader 9
I think i see Japanese just fine. Can you attach a screenshot?
I provided an imgur gallery with several screenshots—see the attached URL. I'll repeat it here: http://imgur.com/a/pdqC5#0
Yeah, i want a screenshot of what you get in Okular :D Also tell me which poppler and poppler-data versions do you have an attach a screenshot of Okular->File->Properties->Fonts
Ok, Luigi brought to my attention that the screenshot of okular is there in imgur too, hard to use webpage, please answer the other questions though.
I checked, and it turns out that I didn't have poppler-data installed. After installing poppler-data, the Japanese text displayed perfectly (see http://i.imgur.com/XJ77wGc.png for a before-and-after screenshot). It appears that Arch does not have poppler-data listed as a dependency (optional or otherwise—see https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/kdegraphics-okular/ ) for Okular, so I suppose I should mention it over there. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.