754424 - Fonts don't render properly in Linux

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect)

Description

[George Wright (:gw280) (needinfo me!)]

Attachment: screenshot

I've never seen pdf.js render correctly on Linux; it either renders glyphs way too large, or renders incorrect glyphs, or both. See attached screenshot.

Comment 1

[Yury Delendik (:yury)]

Could you provide the URL for the PDF on the screenshot?

In some case the pdf.js cannot display font embedded in the PDF documents. Check the http://mzl.la/pdfjs-test page. If the @face-font tests are failing, then the user chose that web pages are not allowed to used their fonts (see Preferences -> Content -> Fonts & Colors -> Advanced).

Comment 2

[Takanori MATSUURA]

At least,
http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/Zombies.pdf
seems to be rendered correctly with the following m-c build on Win64.

20121210030747
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/725eb8792d27

Comment 3

[Yury Delendik (:yury)]

How did I missed it on the screenshot? :)

Comment 4

[George Wright (:gw280) (needinfo me!)]

I just tested again and it's working fine on my Fedora 17 installation. I'll check again with Ubuntu, but it may have been fixed since I filed this.

Comment 5

[Anthony Jones (:ajones, :kentuckyfriedtakahe, :k17e)]

It broken on Ubuntu 12.10 Firefox Nightly.

Comment 6

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(It's WORKSFORME over here, on Ubuntu 12.10 w/ up-to-date 64-bit Firefox nightly, looking at the Zombies PDF.)

Comment 7

[Yury Delendik (:yury)]

Anthony, can you provide the screenshot? Also, can you run http://mzl.la/pdfjs-test ?

Comment 8

[Anthony Jones (:ajones, :kentuckyfriedtakahe, :k17e)]

@font-face is supported/enabled	Failed	Important	Core	No	info
@font-face loading completion detection	Failed	Important	Core	No	info

Comment 9

[Anthony Jones (:ajones, :kentuckyfriedtakahe, :k17e)]

Attachment: screenshot ubuntu 12.10 amd64

Comment 10

[Yury Delendik (:yury)]

(In reply to Anthony Jones (:kentuckyfriedtakahe) from comment #8)
> @font-face is supported/enabled	Failed	Important	Core	No	info
> @font-face loading completion detection	Failed	Important	Core	No	info

Looks like either web page fonts are disabled (see Preferences->Content->Font Advanced..., that shall be enabled by default) or duplicate of Bug 830078.

Comment 11

[Anthony Jones (:ajones, :kentuckyfriedtakahe, :k17e)]

"Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selection above" is checked.

Comment 12

[Attila Soki]

i think this is not a linux only bug
os x with nightly 21.0a1 (2013-02-19) displays blank pdf pages

Comment 13

[George Wright (:gw280) (needinfo me!)]

Not seen this for a while