Bug 4419

Summary: PDF text garbled/missing
Product: poppler Reporter: Saikat Guha <saikat>
Component: generalAssignee: Kristian Høgsberg <krh>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high CC: sigge
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Attachments: PDF that is not rendered correctly

Description Saikat Guha 2005-09-11 00:15:16 UTC
The PDF below renders as complete gibberish (with some text missing) in evince.
It renders fine with ghostscript/gv and with acroread.

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~saikat/EF-LB2731.pdf
Comment 1 Saikat Guha 2005-09-11 00:16:11 UTC
Fedora Core 4 - x86_64
poppler-0.4.1-1.1
evince-0.4.0-1.2
Comment 2 Saikat Guha 2005-09-11 00:17:18 UTC
Created attachment 3226 [details]
PDF that is not rendered correctly
Comment 3 Kristian Høgsberg 2005-09-12 08:06:44 UTC
Yup, this was a 0.4.1 regression, 0.4.2 should fix this problem.
Comment 4 Daniel James 2005-10-17 02:01:13 UTC
 = Transfering this bug from GNOME Bugzilla: 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318658 = 
 
I'm experiencing something similar with the following PDF in Evince 0.4.0-1 
with libpoppler0c2 0.4.2-1 from Debian Etch, and other PDFs from the same 
source: 
 
http://linuxaudio.org/en/press/lud49-Audio_Libre.pdf 
 
These PDFs render perfectly well in xpdf or kpdf. 
 
Please confirm that this example renders OK with the latest CVS version of 
Evince/Poppler. 
 
Thanks! 
 
Daniel James 
Comment 5 Daniel James 2005-10-29 01:56:31 UTC
The exact same problem has been reported on Debian PowerPC, with PDFs from a 
different source: 
 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=335625 
 
The PDFs I had problems with were PDF1.3 and were made with the Adobe tools 
(InDesign etc). Perhaps this other magazine is using similar applications for 
PDF output. 
 
I would think this was a general bug with PDFs on Debian, except for the fact 
that xpdf and other free software viewers can view these particular PDFs 
properly on the same Debian systems. Could the problem be in the way Debian is 
packaging evince/poppler/cairo/fonts? 
Comment 6 Kristian Høgsberg 2005-12-04 13:26:38 UTC
Yup, this bug resurfaced again on CVS head, it's fixed again.

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