The pdf file, which can be downloaded from google books, contains images of scanned text and images of scanned engravings. When the pdf is viewed with evince, or converted with gimp, the images containing text display, but the images containing the illustrations do not display. Furthermore there are errors on the terminal: Error (636073): Error in JPX stream (repeated multiple times) The pdf file displays correctly in acroread (v.9) I'm using poppler v 0.12.0 with the glib front end on ubuntu 9.10 I notice this report is similar to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15629 Which is marked as fixed.
The problem is ubuntu is not using openjpeg when building poppler so the old and deprecated decoder is used and it fails. You should open a bug against ubuntu asking them to use openjpeg when building poppler.
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