Ubuntu
xournal package

Exporting to PDF doesn't display text on other computers

Bug #539339 reported by Anthony Hurst
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xournal (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: xournal

I'm using Xournal to export my school notes to PDF to then be displayed on my desktop windows machine and my pdf viewer on my iPhone. I've noticed that the inkings show perfectly but the text does not display. I could see the text on the windows machine as soon as Xournal was installed which makes no sense to me but I still cannot display the text on my phone and now I can't see the text on my netbook either. I'm convinced the bug is somewhere in Xournal or possibly the fonts? Thanks, Anthony Hurst.

Anthony Hurst (anthony-hurst)
tags: added: export pdf text xournal
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Evan Kendall (evankendall) wrote :

Hi Anthony,

This issue has been mentioned elsewhere. I'm hoping it gets resolved, but another user suggested a workaround that I have been using successfully for a long time.

Rather than use the built-in "export to pdf" feature, use the "print to pdf" selection from the printer dialog (this is a common feature in many distros, so it should work on yours).

- Evan

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in xournal (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Paul Whittaker (launchpad-pdw) wrote :

Still seeing this in version 0.4.6~pre20110721-1build1 (under Ubuntu 12.04.3, 64-bit).

Might this issue be related to the one reported (and fixed) at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21693? That mentions a patch made to 0.4.5 in late 2010; perhaps that hadn't made it into our upstream by mid 2011. Can we adopt that work, if so? Gaetan doesn't describe it as a complex fix.

If we could fix this in time for 14.04 LTS, that would be very handy....

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Denis Auroux (auroux) wrote :

This should be fixed in new upstream release 0.4.8. -- Denis

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