Package: kpdf Version: 4:3.3.1-1 Severity: normal Kpdf fails to display PDF files that contain Japanese charactors; the pages shown looks cryptographic because of wrong handling of 16-bit TrueType fonts. While, with xpdf, they are OK to be viewed.
This is because xpdf portion of kpdf is not well-patched, even though the xpdf package has been already patched. (As for xpdf's patch, see the changelog of xpdf 3.00-3 at http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/xpdf/xpdf_3.00-3/changelog . You'll see Hamish has added "upstream patch to fix handling of 16-bit TrueType fonts".) Enclosed is a file of collective patches extracted from Debian's xpdf package. Notice that the patch file contains the one that fixes another bug of kpdf's; a fix for possible crash of kpdf caused by calling FreeType's FT_Decompose_Outline with a non-outline object. (As for this bug, see BTS #254864 and, as well, the changelog of xpdf 3.00-8 at http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/xpdf/xpdf_3.00-8/changelog for more detail.) The PDF files with which I've examined the patches are: (1) http://www.firstserver.co.jp/pdf/news041015.pdf (2) http://www.hatena.ne.jp/tools/041023_revised_rules.pdf (both are Japanese) Thank you for your attention. Regards, Haru -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.5.tp13 Locale: LANG=ja_JP.eucJP, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP Versions of packages kpdf depends on: ii kdelibs4 4:3.3.1-1 KDE core libraries ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-5 client library to control the FAM ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:3.4.2-3 GCC support library ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libidn11 0.5.2-3 GNU libidn library, implementation ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact ii libpng12-0 1.2.7-1 PNG library - runtime ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.3-5 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libt1-5 5.0.2-3 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-1 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information