[tex-live] Bug#773668: okular shows "jumping" letters in pdf documents generated using pdflatex with russian babel

[Robin Fairbairns]

Martin Schröder <martin at oneiros.de> wrote:

> 2014-12-21 20:09 GMT+01:00 Askar Safin <safinaskar at mail.ru>:
> > Steps to reproduce:
> > * Create the following file tex.tex:
> > \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> > \usepackage[russian]{babel}
> > \begin{document}
> > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed ...
> > \end{document}
> > * pdflatex tex.tex
> > * okular tex.pdf
> > * Adjust zoom until you will see ugly "jumping" letters (i. e. one
>   letter is up, and the following letter in the same word is down). For
>   example, on my laptop with screen resolution 1600 x 900 pixels and
>   physical size 214.8 cm x 381.9 cm zoom 100 % will go
> >
> > What I see? Well, "jumping" letters. I see something like this:
> > "LOrEm IpSum DOlOr SIT AmEt ...". See screenshot:
> > http://picpaste.com/y-gh3PH69b.png  .
> 
> I can not reproduce this with TL2014 and okular 4.14.3.

however, the snapshot is exactly what one would expect with bitmap fonts
and pdf viewer that can't/won't deal with bitmap fonts.

(takes rather a lot of enlargement to be sure...)

robin fairbairns
hapless faq-er of cambridge