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[madbiologist <667752@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Posted in the downstream bug report by the original bug reporter on 17th
September 2014:

This problem is still here in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ... and it has become a serious matter.
More and more of my own customers are switching to Ubuntu, which is a positive thing IMO. But with the increasing use of online web-services to handle billing, document exchanges and online-shopping ... more and more streaming-PDF files are being created on-the-fly as everyone is expected to be able to read that particular format. But when people can't read the amount due on an invoice or the delivery-date on a webshopping receipt, because the font-rendering of the pre-installed document viewer in Ubuntu won't display them correctly (or sometimes not at all), it really becomes highly inconvenient for both regular users as well as more experienced user. The Adobe Reader installation package is no longer available in ubuntu 14.04's standard repositories, which was a go-to option for the more experienced user.
SO BUCKLE UP PEOPLE, let's see if we can't fix this issue. And hopefully before we use a couple of gigabytes on the web in forum- and chatlogs about the subject of creating temporary fixes and work-arounds of such a basic thing.

best of luck to all

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Title:
  Non-embedded standard fonts in PDF files are not displayed/rendered
  correctly

Status in Evince document viewer:
  Unknown
Status in libcairo  -  cairo vector graphics library:
  Confirmed
Status in cairo package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in evince package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: evince

  1)
  Natty:
  lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
  Release:	11.04

  Maverick:
  lsb_release -rd
  Description: Ubuntu 10.10
  Release: 10.10

  Lucid:
  Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx (amd64)

  2)
  Natty:
  apt-cache policy acroread
  acroread:
    Installed: 9.4.2-0natty1
    Candidate: 9.4.2-0natty1
    Version table:
   *** 9.4.2-0natty1 0
          500 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ natty/partner i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  apt-cache policy evince
  evince:
    Installed: 2.32.0-0ubuntu12.1
    Candidate: 2.32.0-0ubuntu12.1
    Version table:
   *** 2.32.0-0ubuntu12.1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-proposed/main i386
  Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       2.32.0-0ubuntu12 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages

  apt-cache policy libcairo2
  libcairo2:
    Installed: 1.10.2-2ubuntu2
    Candidate: 1.10.2-2ubuntu2
    Version table:
   *** 1.10.2-2ubuntu2 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  Maverick:
  apt-cache policy evince
  evince:
    Installed: 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
    Candidate: 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 2.32.0-0ubuntu1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  apt-cache policy libcairo2
  libcairo2:
    Installed: 1.10.0-1ubuntu3
    Candidate: 1.10.0-1ubuntu3
    Version table:
   *** 1.10.0-1ubuntu3 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1.10.0-1ubuntu2 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages

  apt-cache policy acroread
  acroread:
    Installed: 9.4-1maverick1
    Candidate: 9.4-1maverick1
    Version table:
   *** 9.4-1maverick1 0
          500 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ maverick/partner i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  3) When viewing PDF attachment "PDF sample for Evince", which has font
  "Times Roman" or "Helvetica", the text looks different in Evince in
  comparison to Adobe Reader.

  4) What is expected is that it looks the same in both.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: evince 2.30.3-0ubuntu1.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.45-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Oct 28 13:51:21 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100419.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_DK.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: evince

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