Bug 25437

Summary:	Poppler renders badly some nasty PDF while xpdf opens them correctly
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Lionel Dricot <lionel>
Component:	cairo backend	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Bug Depends on:	27456
Bug Blocks:
Attachments:	original PDF produced by the scanner

Description Lionel Dricot 2009-12-04 01:18:53 UTC

This happens with PDF files generated by our LAN scanner.

All Poppler-based applications render them very strangely (text are sometimes invisible, sometimes inversed like in a mirror). Confirmed with Evince and with PDFmod.

If you open the PDF with the good old xpdf, there's no problem at all. (except some 

Error (1090556): Unexpected EOF in JBIG2 stream
Error (1090973): Unexpected EOF in JBIG2 stream
Error (1091391): Unexpected EOF in JBIG2 stream
Error (1091958): Unexpected EOF in JBIG2 stream
Error (1092294): Unexpected EOF in JBIG2 stream

in the console.


The workaround is to open the PDF with Evince and print it to a PDF file. The output produced is fine in Evince then.

Comment 1 Lionel Dricot 2009-12-04 01:20:05 UTC

Created attachment 31730 [details]
original PDF produced by the scanner

As you can see with Evince, the text appears like in a mirror. Really strange. It's fine in XPDF.

Comment 2 Carlos Garcia Campos 2009-12-04 01:34:42 UTC

Looks like a bug in CairoOutputDev::drawImageMaskPrescaled() that's why it works when rendering for printing.

Comment 3 Michał Grzybowski 2014-05-23 04:50:00 UTC

Works for me in evince, with version 0.24.5.

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