[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

** Changed in: poppler Status: Confirmed => Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 Title: No subpixel rendering To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bug

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

** Changed in: poppler (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 Title: No subpixel rendering To manage notifications about this bug go to: ht

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

Hello guys, Have any plans for https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3307 ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 Title: No subpixel rendering -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubun

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

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[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

** Changed in: poppler Importance: Wishlist => Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 Title: No subpixel rendering -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

Did you try a number of PDF files? It seems that some types of PDF are always grayscale by virtue of how the fonts are embedded in them. PDF documents generated by OpenOffice are among those for instance. I don’t feel terribly confident with these patches at all to be frank. It would be good if a

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

@Tobias Wolf That's not what I meant. I did notice that there was an official, unpatched package that was more recent than yours but I didn't install it. I'm sure I have your patched versions installed but PDFs are still rendered using greyscale-antialiasing. I checked with xmag. Adobe Reader doe

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

I missed a minor update to Evince that came through lucid-updates last week. I uploaded a new patched package that takes precedence again. -- No subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribe

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

@Tobias Wolf I installed the latest patched versions of libpoppler, libcairo and evince from your PPA but evince still does not use subpixels. Are there any config files I need to edit or something? -- No subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 You received this bug notification

Re: [Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

On Mi, 2010-03-24 at 09:12 +, Anders Kaseorg wrote: > The way forward here is to work with Cairo upstream to resolve the > problems with users whose FreeType lacks subpixel rendering, and try get > the patches reintroduced for the 1.9 branch. Yes, I hope they will pick this up soon. The test

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

> Well, yes. And I received a stupefying reaction when I expressed > disbelief about this claim back then: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2009-August/005008.html Sounds like he sees a slight difference, not enough to personally care about it, but would accept a good patch if someo

Re: [Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

> No; the correct versioning scheme for a PPA is described here: > https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/BuildingASourcePackage#Versioning Duly noted. > > I know upstream wants a patch and sees no difference between LCD > > filter and no filtering anyhow. But really. > > It’s totally reasona

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

> I needed a method to override the packaged versions and by > trial and error it appeared that I have to increment ubuntuX. No; the correct versioning scheme for a PPA is described here: https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/BuildingASourcePackage#Versioning > On another note, you posted a pa

Re: [Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

Hello Anders, you just caught me being sloppy. I needed a method to override the packaged versions and by trial and error it appeared that I have to increment ubuntuX. I had been using this method for a while when I figured I can save work for myself if skip incremental updates during development p

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

Tobias, your improved-lcd-filtering PPA contains a version of poppler labelled as “0.12.4-0ubuntu4~ppa1”. However, it is actually based on 0.12.4-0ubuntu1, and is missing the changes in Ubuntu’s 0.12.4-0ubuntu2, even though it claims to have a higher version. Similarly for evince 2.29.92-0ubuntu4

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

Ah yes. Now I can imagine what went wrong. For some files the patch does nothing. I’m not sure why, but I have a hunch that it is related to what type of fonts are embedded. So on these oddball files you always get gray antialias. Ilja, I reported that exact bug in Gnome Bugzilla. Please go there

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

Never mind, was too quick. Now apt-cache reports the correct version. -- No subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.co

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

The latest packages from the PPA work fine for me on Karmic, but why does the evince version 2.29.2-0ubuntu2~ppa3 as reported by dpkg and apt-cache differ from 2.29.5-0ubuntu5~ppa3 as listed at ? If I rebuild the packages from so

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

I’m not sure why it doesn’t work for you. You have the full set of packages. Unfortunately I moved my system onwards to Lucid, so I can’t reproduce your setup. But I know that a friend added this PPA on his Karmic sytem and it worked. Anyway, I upload another Evince to the Karmic PPA. Can you tr

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

This is the output (I've removed package descriptions on the right): ii evince2.29.2-0ubuntu2~ppa3 ii libcairo2 1.8.8-2ubuntu3~ppa2 ii libevdocument12.28.1-0ubuntu3~ppa1 ii libevdocument22.29.2-0ubuntu2~ppa3 ii libevview1

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

Mattibal can you post the output of this command please? dpkg -l | grep "poppler\|evince\|libevview\|libevdoc\|libcairo2" -- No subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

I tried to install the packages from the PPA above, but they didn't solved the problem. It changed the font rendering method, but it didn't enabled subpixel rendering. In the attachment there is a comparison between the same pdf viewed in Evince with and without PPA's packages. Sorry if they does

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

I have this problem too in Okular. The results are slightly better when I don't use T1 fonts in Latex as per this bug report http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21061 but still the fonts in Okular from latex-generated documents are thin and weak. ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzi

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

The problem with Evince is that scrolling is too fast(abrupt), there's no way to slow it down and I always need to hide the next part of the text in order to try to guess it (maths course books). That plus the lack of annotations.. So back on Okular and its eye-damaging fonts. Flooder out, hope we

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

As Tom Jaeger pointed out earlier, why nobody seem to care about subpixel smoothing in PDF readers ?! In fact I have subpixel smoothing for about every text in KDE and Gnome but the two main PDF readers, the kind of app that displays the heaviest quantity of text on an end-user machine with web

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

Ra, this problem is driving me crazy !.. So Okular/Poppler-QT4 in fact doesn't use Cairo at all, but uses "Arthur" instead. Yay, back to square one! -- No subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whic

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

Hi, Tobias packages makes font rendering so much better in Evince, but not in Okular :-( I took a quick look at the Okular source code and there's no reference to Cairo.. how could I enable subpixel rendering in this case? -- No subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 You rece

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

I'm still looking forward to seeing out-of-the-box subpixel-support in libpoppler. What's the news since November? -- No subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

Tobias: Thanks. Your package offers huge improvements over the standard one, but, I use hintfull as my default hinting style and I'm curious as to how your changes would look if you compiled with hintfull instead of hintslight. Screenshot; http://img381.imageshack.us/my.php?image=popplerhintslight

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

Mohamed, can you try my packages above and see if they are an improvement? I think they achieve what you are looking for. -- No subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

Can someone please explain in layman terms when subpixel rendering is going to be available in evince (okular), the difference between a pdf and the fonts which evince renders is huge. I've started a thread on the Evince mailing lists; http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.evince.general hop

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

It seems that Poppler also disables hinting completely. I created test packages in a special PPA that enable both slight hinting, which really improves vertical text contrast, and the default LCD filter, which improves horizontal contrast a great deal. I had to revert the removal of the FreeType L

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

Patch seems to do what what it says on the box, with nice results. -- No subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com h

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

It doesn't matter. I don't know where the font options come from, but they definitely don't come from gconf. So even if you don't explicitly set the pixel order, it'll still assume RGB. -- No subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

Right, that’s fair enough. As long as you don’t propose this as the fix. In your patch, why do you hard code pixel order to RGB? What if someone rotates his screen? -- No subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubunt

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

The patch from bugzilla has a more obvious problem: It doesn't work. So I created this patch which will at least give people what they want even if it's not the "right" solution. That's what "quick-and-dirty workaround" means. Obviously I wouldn't even think about submitting this upstream, bu

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

Tom, that patch from freedesktop bugzilla is not cool. It messes with the symptoms but not with the cause of the bug. Did you read the comments in the thread? http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2008-May/003814.html -- No subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 You rec

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

This deb should enable subpixel smoothing in evince. It needs the evince package from intrepid. ** Attachment added: "libpoppler-glib3_0.8.2-2_i386.deb" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15399255/libpoppler-glib3_0.8.2-2_i386.deb -- No subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 You

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

quick-and-dirty workaround ** Attachment added: "poppler-force-subpixel.patch" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15399169/poppler-force-subpixel.patch -- No subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which i

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

Nevermind, evince/intrepid links against libpoppler3. -- No subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

Could someone please explain what the deal is with evince linking against libpoppler2? -- No subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bug

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

** Changed in: poppler (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low Status: Confirmed => Triaged ** Changed in: poppler (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) -- No subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 You received this bug notification

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

** Changed in: poppler Status: Unknown => Confirmed -- No subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://l

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

Posted at mailing list, problem is due to bug in Cairo backend surface code. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3307 ** Changed in: poppler (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed ** Also affects: poppler via https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3307 Importance: Unkn

[Bug 80921] Re: No subpixel rendering

that's an upstream request and you can ask that on the poppler mailing list not in a bug tracker, thanks. ** Changed in: poppler (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- No subpixel rendering https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80921 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub