PDF missing charachters

[Roger K. Wells]

On 05/03/2011 10:19 AM, Dj YB wrote:
> On Tuesday May 3 2011 17:06:03 Tim wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 15:19 +0300, Dj YB wrote:
>>> the problem is not limited to a single document or even to a single
>>> source.
>>>
>>> I am using Okular to read PDF documents.
>>> assuming the documents are good (they have no problem in windows
>>> machines),
>> Well, that's still not an indication that they're good.  Okular might
>> have a problem.  Or, it could be that the PDFs were created badly, but
>> not noticed because of some strange behaviour of the Windows PDF reader.
>>
>> I'd try reading them on another PDF reader on Linux (e.g. xpdf, evince),
>> just to work out whether it's Okular, or something else causing your
>> problem.  It might be the Okular is dependent on something else
>> providing PDF support (ghostscript, poppler, etc.).  But it looks like
>> Okular just depends on poppler to do the work.  You might want to verify
>> that it's installed properly, or that there aren't any bug reports for
>> them.
>>
>> If it makes it through the list, I've attached a very small PDF file
>> with four different letter pi's in it.  That PDF was created using
>> OpenOffice.org, and it embedded the fonts in the file.  I don't have
>> Okular installed to test it, but it works in evince and xpdf.
> thanks, its working
> I will try different pdf readers to test the "bad" documents
>
FWIW
It displays fine in okular (Version 0.12.2) & acrobat (v 9.4) on
2.6.35.12-90.fc14.x86_64
roger
> Regards,
> YB.


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