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Please include Adobe Reader Asian font packs with acroread package

Bug #513561 reported by Alex Tai
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adobe-isv
Confirmed
Undecided
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acroread (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
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Ubuntu ubuntu-14.04-alpha-2

Bug Description

Please include Adobe Reader Asian font packs with Ubuntu acroread package,
to enable viewing of some Asian PDF documents.

As of acroread/9.5.4-1quantal1, those fontpacks are still not included.

The font packs can be downloaded from here: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.1/misc/
or from the links provided by mayagupt in bug comment #2: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acroread/+bug/513561/comments/2

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Original bug description:

Cannot read Chinese font in Adobe Reader 9

As title, I cannot read the Chinese font in Adobe Reader 9 which you've just published to the software center. I've removed the older version Reader 8, although it can support this function. The Adobe website seems not to open the Asian font support for this version yet. Please help deal with this issue.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 28 10:43:43 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: software-center 1.0.3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=zh_TW.UTF-8
 LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: software-center
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

See original description
Revision history for this message
Alex Tai (alex-tai) wrote :
Will Bickerstaff (willbickerstaff)
affects: software-center (Ubuntu) → acroread (Ubuntu)
Revision history for this message
Maya (mayagupt) wrote :

Hi Alex,
Please download chinese fontpack from below mentioned links:

chinese simplified
http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.1/misc/FontPack910_chs_i486-linux.tar.bz2

chinese traditional
http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.1/misc/FontPack910_cht_i486-linux.tar.bz2

japanese
 http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.1/misc/FontPack910_jpn_i486-linux.tar.bz2

korean
 http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.1/misc/FontPack910_kor_i486-linux.tar.bz2

 http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.1/misc/FontPack910_xtd_i486-linux.tar.bz2

-mayank

Revision history for this message
Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote :

Hi, a new acroread release (0.9.4) is available for update, could you give it a try and tell us if the problem persists?
If you still have this bug please set back the status to "new"
thanks

Changed in acroread (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Bob Bib (bobbib)
description: updated
tags: added: amd64 hardy lucid oneiric packaging precise quantal raring
summary: - Cannot read Chinese font in Adobe Reader 9
+ Please include Adobe Reader Asian font packs with acroread package
description: updated
Changed in acroread (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Changed in adobe-isv:
status: New → Confirmed
description: updated
Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)
Changed in acroread (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → ubuntu-14.04-alpha-2
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

In the meantime, one way around this problem is to use the PDF viewer built in to Firefox.

Revision history for this message
Bob Bib (bobbib) wrote : Re: [Bug 513561] Re: Please include Adobe Reader Asian font packs with acroread package

Rolf Leggewie:
> In the meantime, one way around this problem is to use the PDF viewer
> built in to Firefox.

IMHO, it's better to use a standalone PDF viewer like evince.

Revision history for this message
Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

On 20.11.2013 16:49, Bob Bib wrote:
> Rolf Leggewie:
>> In the meantime, one way around this problem is to use the PDF viewer
>> built in to Firefox.
> IMHO, it's better to use a standalone PDF viewer like evince.

Agreed. But from experience, there are cases where FF works when evince
and xpdf fail to display CJKV PDF. FF currently seems to be the more
robust solution.

Revision history for this message
Bob Bib (bobbib) wrote :

20 Nov 2013, 17:05 UTC from Rolf Leggewie:
> On 20.11.2013 16:49, Bob Bib wrote:
> > Rolf Leggewie:
> >> In the meantime, one way around this problem is to use the PDF viewer
> >> built in to Firefox.
> > IMHO, it's better to use a standalone PDF viewer like evince.
>
> Agreed. But from experience, there are cases where FF works when evince
> and xpdf fail to display CJKV PDF. FF currently seems to be the more
> robust solution.

Interesting; what PDF library does Firefox use?

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