Hello,
after using xfce for some time I managed to switch back to KDE and give okular a try.
Unfortunately I found that its pdf font quality is not even comparable to evince. Fonts seem to appear narrower and less readable:
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/8692/snapshot1o.png (okular is on the left)

Here viewtopic.php?f=19&t=7814&p=11181&hilit=okular+poppler#p11181 it is stated that this is an old problem related to the poppler backend.

So does anyone confirm the persistence of the problem? any workarounds?

Anyway I tried to convert pdf to ps with pdf2ps, and as a result fonts appear a little more shapely but with a too sharp edge and much slower rendering.

Kubuntu 9.10 + backported KDE 4.4.

ciao,
frasty

Which version of the poppler library do you have?

pinotree wrote:Which version of the poppler library do you have?

libpoppler-glib4 0.12.0-0ubuntu2.1
libpoppler-qt2 0.12.0-0ubuntu2.1
libpoppler-qt4-3 0.12.0-0ubuntu2.1
libpoppler5 0.12.0-0ubuntu2.1
poppler-data 0.2.1-5

/usr/lib/libpoppler-glib.so.4 -> libpoppler-glib.so.4.0.0
/usr/lib/libpoppler-glib.so.4.0.0
/usr/lib/libpoppler-qt4.so.3 -> libpoppler-qt4.so.3.2.0
/usr/lib/libpoppler-qt4.so.3.2.0
/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.5 -> libpoppler.so.5.0.0
/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.5.0.0

If possible, try to update poppler to 0.12.1 at least.

pinotree wrote:If possible, try to update poppler to 0.12.1 at least.

Ok, just upgraded poppler to 0.12.2-2.1ubuntu4 and, as you can see http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/8379/snapshot2rn.png, fonts are now rendered accurate.

Thank you pinotree

ciao,
frasty