Bug 12779 - Evince Document Viewer 2.20.0 fails to read Arabic PDFs
Summary: Evince Document Viewer 2.20.0 fails to read Arabic PDFs
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: poppler
Classification: Unclassified
Component: cairo backend (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
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Assignee: poppler-bugs
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Reported: 2007-10-11 08:40 UTC by Pedro Villavicencio
Modified: 2009-08-06 01:43 UTC (History)
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Description Pedro Villavicencio 2007-10-11 08:40:45 UTC 
This bug has been reported here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/151608

"evince on gutsy does not correctly read arabic pdf files. it does open it, but most of the text is hidden (white) and misplaced.

the same pdf is correctly read on the feisty live CD. (Evince 0.8.1)"

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9946313/1.pdf
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2007-10-11 11:04:20 UTC 
Can only reproduce it with the cairo backend
Comment 2 Carlos Garcia Campos 2009-08-06 01:43:04 UTC 
It's should be fixed now. Thanks for reporting.

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