This issue has been submitted on the GNOME Bugzilla database for Evince. See: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=529868
Works with splash. Reproduced with cairo using 0.16.7. Works with cairo in master. Looks like the cairo softmask bugs that has been fixed.
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