[email protected] writes: > Can anybody read the Chinese these days with xpdf anymore? > wget -O x.pdf > http://www1.hl.gov.tw/bus/upload/%AA%E1%BD%AC%AB%C8%B9B%A5%FA%C2%D7%BDu%AE%C9%B6%A1%AA%ED.pdf > xpdf x.pdf > See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591094 > Should I dump xpdf and instead use what? > Thanks.
I could confirm the Chinese characters were broken inside my evince.
I guess, since poppler disabled hinting, the bytecode interpreter wasn't
used at all. IIRC, it was disabled for correctness or better print
quality, because grid fitting is not suitable for printing. I used to
have a patched version installed locally some time ago.
Screenshot attached.
--
A badly written book is only a blunder. A bad translation of a good
book is a crime.
-- Gilbert Highet
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