1108301 - Text in Bangla appears garbled in PDF viewer

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect, P2)

Description

[Nooth]

Attachment: ebook-fire fox.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1) Copy some Bangla text from MS Word into WordPress post editor.
2) Convert the text in PDF format using PrinceXML. 
3) Upload it to the WordPress site and view the PDF in Firefox's PDF viewer.
3) Notice the garbled text, which appears perfect in other PDF viewers.


Actual results:

Text in Bangla appears to be garbled.


Expected results:

The text should have appeared clearly, just as it does in Adobe Acrobat Reader or other inbuilt PDF viewers inside the latest Chrome and IE.

Comment 1

[Loic]

Could you attach such a PDF, please.

Comment 2

[Nooth]

Attachment: The_FIrst_Step_PDF.pdf

Comment 3

[Loic]

It regressed.

good=2014-04-04
bad=2014-04-05
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=6c924a018540&tochange=5fa70bd90a8b

Ryan VanderMeulen — Bug 990852 - Update pdf.js to version 0.8.1334. r=yury, r=Mossop

Comment 4

[Jonas Jenwald [:Snuffleupagus]]

This regressed upstream in commit https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/commit/b5b94a4af389ef387570cf22662d9fc6bd41417a, i.e. PR https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/pull/4259.

Comment 5

[Jonas Jenwald [:Snuffleupagus]]

Attachment: bug1108301_reduced.pdf

Comment 6

[Aaron Raimist [:aaronraimist]]

Verified fixed: Firefox 39.0B7 on Fedora 22 Workstation 64-bit using Gnome

UA: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0
Build ID: 20150618135210

[testday-20150619]

This still needs to be verified on Windows.

Comment 7

[Loic]

It's fixed with FF39 on Win 7 (hwa on/off).

Comment 8

[Sayed Mohammad Amir [:smamir]]

I have verified the fix with Firefox Beta 39.0b7(20150618135210) on Windows 7 64 bit. 

UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0

According to comment 6 and comment 7 , updating the status to verified fixed.