Bug#668250: Some fonts only shown and printed partially

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 09.05.2012, 14:00 -0400 schrieb Denis Laxalde:
> tags 668250 + confirmed
> thanks
> 
> Joachim Breitner a écrit :
> > Am Dienstag, den 10.04.2012, 09:41 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> > > the attached PDF file is rendered and printed wrong, as shown in the
> > > attached screenshot: The fixed-with font parts are only partly visible,
> > > maybe the lower 10% of the font. It works fine in xpdf and also in
> > > evince after running it through pdf2ps.
> > 
> > I observe this behaviour with many more PDF files, not only fixed-width
> > fonts. In
> > http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/plasma/publications/pdf/BakewellRuncimanPPDP00.pdf all serif fonts are broken here.
> > 
> > Again, xpdf works fine.
> 
> The culprit appears to be libcairo2 version 1.12. Downgrading to 1.10
> fixes the problem.

thanks for the information. Is more known about the problem? Is upstream
aware of the problem? Can we make sure that this bug is fixed before the
release? And is the severity appropriate – for me (having to read lots
of affected research papers) it is serious, but maybe not for everyone.

Greetings,
Joachim



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