Bug#533138: /usr/bin/evince: evince renders fonts terribly when a pdf also includes embedded fonts

[Denis Laxalde]

forwarded 533138 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583809
thanks

On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:10:48 +1100, Jem Atahan wrote:
> Hi Denis,
> 
> I have updated evince to 2.28.2-1 and it is still grinding most of
> the PDFs I have into paste. I have attached an academic article from
> the 50s which exhibits the unpleasantness. Both of the authors of are
> dead, and I recon it is probably freely available somewhere anyway.
> This one I got from ovid (not jstor).
> 
> It is a bit grainy for me in okular and kpdf, but quite readable. In
> evince it looks pretty bad. In other articles I have, the difference
> is more marked. Okular will render smoothly and evince will make them
> look terrible.
>

Your example also have ocr data embedded.

A bit of investigation upstream lead me to the bug report above, which
is classified as enhancement.
Hence, forwarding this bug. You may follow-up upstream.

Thanks,

  Denis