[Bug 20009] New: Bad rendering (hinting) in Evince and Xpdf

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           Summary: Bad rendering (hinting) in Evince and Xpdf
           Product: Ubuntu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: i386
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: evince
        AssignedTo: seb128 at ubuntu.com
        ReportedBy: msiniscalchi at gmail.com
         QAContact: desktop-bugs at lists.ubuntu.com


Ubuntu Breezy 5.10/i386

Evince 0.4.0 using Poppler 0.4.2 (splash), as in the standard install
Xpdf 3.0.1

Problem: Fonts in PDF files look quite bad in Evince and Xpdf compared with the
*same* document viewed with the *same* versions of Evince and Xpdf in SUSE 10.0.
In particular, this seems to be a hinting problem.

Could it be because Ubuntu 5.10 uses Freetype-2.1.7? SUSE 2.10 uses Freetype-2.1.10.

I can provide screenshots comparing rendering in Ubuntu and Suse if necessary.

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