FS#18824 - Poppler-data package needed to view Asian fonts in PDF viewers

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by David Couzelis (drcouzelis) - Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 22:36 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 25 March 2010, 09:43 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

I have PDF files with Japanese text in them. Evince would display them correctly in the past. Now, evince does not display any Japanese text. Instead, there is white space where Japanese text should be. When starting evince from a terminal window, an error message says "Missing language pack for 'Adobe-Japan1' mapping".


Additional info:

According to what I have read in other forums, this affects both evince and kpdf, and probably anything else that depends on the package "poppler".


Possible solution:

The package "extra/poppler-data" is needed to display Asian fonts. If I install that package then Japanese fonts are displayed correctly.

The package "evince" depends on "poppler-glib", which depends on "poppler", but nothing depends on "poppler-data". Consider adding "poppler-data" as a dependency for "poppler", or at least as an optional package.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Thursday, 25 March 2010, 09:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed in svn.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 25 March 2010, 09:39 GMT
poppler-data is already an optdepend for poppler. It was changed into an optdepend because of licensing issues (Adobe didn't allow modification), but recently Adobe has released new files under a free BSD-style license, so we can include it as dependency again.

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