Evince presentation bug?

[graham lawrence]

Reading aoa[1].pdf, from http://www.planetpdf.com/codecuts/pdfs/aoa.pdf

Evince renders fi as what looks like S cedilla (see e.g. page 37), though if you pass that character to the clipboard and paste it you do get fi.

 

And it renders fl as s cedilla space, see page 39.

 

Thank you for providing this viewer.

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[Roderich Schupp]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:12 PM, graham lawrence
<graham.lawrence@...> wrote:
>
> Reading aoa[1].pdf, from http://www.planetpdf.com/codecuts/pdfs/aoa.pdf
> Evince renders fi as what looks like S cedilla (see e.g. page 37), though if you pass that character to the clipboard and paste it you do get fi.
>
> And it renders fl as s cedilla space, see page 39.

Could you be a little more specific where the above errors are shown,
e.g. a snippet
of the sentence, also does "page 37" mean the 37th page of the PDF document or
the page that has "page 37" witten on it at the bottom? Perhaps a screenshot
of the area surrounding the misrendered characters?

Cheers, Roderich
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[graham lawrence]

Snippet?  Screen shot?  Maybe I should also highlight the funky character for you, so that you don't even have to scan the page for it.  Or would you prefer me to come and lead you to it by the hand?

 

In less time than it took you to send me your email, you could have looked in aoa.pdf and found it for yourself.  So do so.

--- On Sat, 10/31/09, Roderich Schupp <roderich.schupp@...> wrote:

From: Roderich Schupp <roderich.schupp@...>
Subject: Re: Evince presentation bug?
To: "graham lawrence" <graham.lawrence@...>
Cc: evince-list@...
Date: Saturday, October 31, 2009, 9:00 AM

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:12 PM, graham lawrence
<graham.lawrence@...> wrote:
>
> Reading aoa[1].pdf, from http://www.planetpdf.com/codecuts/pdfs/aoa.pdf
> Evince renders fi as what looks like S cedilla (see e.g. page 37), though if you pass that character to the clipboard and paste it you do get fi.
>
> And it renders fl as s cedilla space, see page 39.

Could you be a little more specific where the above errors are shown,
e.g. a snippet
of the sentence, also does "page 37" mean the 37th page of the PDF document or
the page that has "page 37" witten on it at the bottom? Perhaps a screenshot
of the area surrounding the misrendered characters?

Cheers, Roderich

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[Peter Bloomfield]

On Nov  2, 2009, at 11:12 AM, graham lawrence wrote:
> Snippet?  Screen shot?  Maybe I should also highlight the funky  
> character for you, so that you don't even have to scan the page for it.   
> Or would you prefer me to come and lead you to it by the hand?
>  
> In less time than it took you to send me your email, you could have  
> looked in aoa.pdf and found it for yourself.  So do so.

Right...and in less time than it took for you *not* to do so, I found the  
places you mentioned--screenshot with "fl" and "fi" attached.

Oh, wait...they're rendered as "fl" and "fi", aren't they?!  Perhaps you  
*do* need to be a little more specific--version, etc.

Peter



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[Wouter Bolsterlee-3]

Op maandag 02-11-2009 om 08:12 uur [tijdzone -0800], schreef graham
lawrence:
> Snippet?  Screen shot?  Maybe I should also highlight the funky
> character for you, so that you don't even have to scan the page for
> it.  Or would you prefer me to come and lead you to it by the hand?
>  
> In less time than it took you to send me your email, you could have
> looked in aoa.pdf and found it for yourself.  So do so.

Hi Graham,

I don't like your hostile approach at all.

The reply Roderich sent after your first message was valid (did you mean
page 39 in the document, or the page with "39" on it?) and formulated in
a friendly manner.  As Peter pointed out with a supporting screenshot,
not everybody experiences the problem you described. Yes, screenshots
*do* help.

So, instead of insulting people by implying they are lazy (or stupid),
while in fact you were being lazy yourself, please come up with more
information and supporting evidence (a screenshot, for example) so that
the people who spend their (spare!) time diagnosing your problem don't
waste their time (mis)interpreting your vague description. (Or waste
their time sending messages like this.)

Oh, and please quote correctly next time. Thanks.

    — Wouter


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