Bug 12779

Summary:	Evince Document Viewer 2.20.0 fails to read Arabic PDFs
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Pedro Villavicencio <pvillavi>
Component:	cairo backend	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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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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