Bug 91415

Summary:	Some images are displayed as black boxes or black shapes
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Roberto <rgnodev>
Component:	general	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	medium	CC:	rgnodev
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Resulting file after using pdftocairo (pages 1 to 13) pdftocairo output after converting pages 1 to 13 to a set of png images pdftocairo output after converting pages 1 to 13 to a single pdf file

Description Roberto 2015-07-21 17:42:29 UTC

Created attachment 117281 [details]
Resulting file after using pdftocairo (pages 1 to 13)

When I open the PDF textbook provided by the following link:

http://curriculumenlinea.mineduc.cl/descargar.php?id_doc=201301091407230

some images and pages are shown as black boxes/ black shapes. See, for example, the following pages: 1, 8, 12, 13, 28, 33, 37. Compare results by opening the same file with Adobe Reader, or even with Firefox's built-in PDF reader.

I first reported the issue to the Evince development team:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752654 

but they couldn't reproduce the issue, neither with poppler 0.30 nor with 0.32. So, it's probably a regression in 0.33.0-1. I can reproduce the bug with pdftocairo (see the attached resulting file).

Currently using: 
Cairo 1.14.2-1
Poppler 0.33.0-1

PDF viewer: Evince 3.16.1

Operating System: Antergos

Comment 1 Roberto 2015-07-21 17:55:21 UTC

Created attachment 117282 [details]
pdftocairo output after converting pages 1 to 13 to a set of png images

Comment 2 Roberto 2015-07-21 17:56:11 UTC

Created attachment 117283 [details]
pdftocairo output after converting pages 1 to 13 to a single pdf file

Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2015-07-21 18:25:21 UTC

It's because those developers are probably using poppler without linking to openjpeg and you are.

openjpeg is a better backend for jpeg2000 decoding but seems to choke on this file sadly.

Needs investigation.

Comment 4 Roberto 2015-07-21 19:43:57 UTC

Then, should I file a bug against Openjpeg? If so, which info should I provide?

Kind regards.

Comment 5 Albert Astals Cid 2015-07-21 19:47:56 UTC

Yes and no, openjpeg is a complicated project, it has a newer version we don't use because it regresses on our use case and then the older version is understandably unmaintained.

We need some time to get them to fix their newer version, move to it and then we can start reporting bugs against them.

Comment 6 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-20 21:35:17 UTC

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