Bug 18563 - Text in PDF is Invisible Unless Selected/Highlighted
Summary: Text in PDF is Invisible Unless Selected/Highlighted
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: poppler
Classification: Unclassified
Component: cairo backend (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: poppler-bugs
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Reported: 2008-11-16 19:53 UTC by Adam Ligas
Modified: 2009-08-09 10:26 UTC (History)
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Attachments
Arbitron National Satellite Report - Spring 2007 (249.27 KB, application/pdf)
2008-11-16 19:53 UTC, Adam Ligas
Details

Description Adam Ligas 2008-11-16 19:53:58 UTC
Created attachment 20352 [details]
Arbitron National Satellite Report - Spring 2007

When opening certain PDFs in Evince, the document comes up partially blank.  It
is only when you select the text in the document that it appears and becomes
readable.  It returns to a blank/unreadable status if you undo the text selection.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
poppler-0.8.7-1.fc9.x86_64
evince-2.22.2-1.fc9.x86_64

How reproducible:
100% with an affected document, attached

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open PDF in Evince
2. See text in PDF is missing
3. Select text with cursor, becomes readable
4. Unselect text with cursor, becomes unreadable again
  
Actual results:
PDF is unreadable without selecting the text

Expected results:
PDF should be readable without needing to select text

Determined to be a poppler bug by evince maintainers:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502806
Comment 1 Adam Ligas 2008-11-16 20:03:27 UTC
Forgot to point out the problematic portion of the file.  The missing text in the attached PDF starts at the table on page 4, and runs to the end of the document on page 11.
Comment 2 Albert Astals Cid 2008-11-23 15:29:53 UTC
Works with splash backend
Comment 3 Carlos Garcia Campos 2009-08-09 10:26:09 UTC
This works now with current poppler/cairo. 


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