Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > I use KPDF (which uses XPDF as a backend). This is fast and renders the > > text as good as acroread. The new okular (with poppler backend) is way > > behind when it comes to rendering (at least LaTeX-generated PDFs). > > This is weird. I thought poppler was just the xpdf code repackaged...
Apparently not. As far as I understand, the problem is that XPDF used a different method to display T1 fonts (fontspec?). The problem seems to be well known. See e.g. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21061 Jürgen