I have obtained a PDF from HiFn. Specifically from http://extranet.hifn.com/ -- which required that I sign an NDA agreement, so I cannot post the PDF here. Anyone can get the documents, AFAIK. Yeah, I know it sucks. The document in question is UG-0034-02_7954_7955_7956_Hardware_Users_Guide.pdf With a recent evince (0.6.1) using poppler (0.5.4), I am getting this document rendered as 122 pages of white. That is on Ubuntu/Edgy. All the other pdf viewers do the same thing (xpdf, gpdf, kpdf, pdf2ps + gv, pdftops + gv), but some of them flash the content before drawing shite over the page. The document also renders fine on my wife's OSX box using adobe acrobat reader, but not using the apple preview program. I installed a chroot with Debian/Sarge (evince 0.1.5, no poppler) and tried evince from that distribution. The document renders ok. I have been told that evince 0.4.0 with poppler 0.4.5 (on Debian/testing) rendered this document fine too. I am not a desktop developer, but I can help debug this remotely for anyone. Just let me know what you need from me.
This bug may be related to bug 4957.
Can you test if it is still a problem with poppler 0.6.2?
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Hello Bart, can you still reproduce the problem with a more recent Poppler version?
sorry it took so long to confirm. Yes, I am still seeing this with.... Evince Document Viewer 2.22.2 Using poppler 0.8.7 (cairo) ... on Debian/Lenny. I noticed that if I highlight the page, I see content being highlighted (white text, blue background... as per my profile settings).
Without the document there's little we can do.
I am having the blank page problem, having sampled 4 random JSTOR journal PDFs, when using evince as downloaded from debian etch repos. I would suggest this is generic to JSTOR. It is difficult to determine at what level the bug is occuring. Is there a utility for poppler to generate static image renders, or can a developer/alternate, who might have access to JSTOR be able to confirm or deny this?] Possibly related reports http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495423
No Document -> Fix not possible
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