GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 347849
evince is unable to render pdf files at large size
Last modified: 2007-01-15 18:53:59 UTC
Try to view the attached file in presentation mode or fullscreen, non-continuous mode.
Created attachment 69075 [details] sample pdf file
Works fine for me, can you try more recent version of evince?
Well, I have the most recent version of evince available through debian (unstable) at this time. I can try to compile a newer version, depending on the prerequisites. I probably should have mentioned what in fact happens: if the onscreen size is small everything seems to work fine. For lalrge screen size the background (except a column on the left) disappears and so the text becomes unreadable.
I tried to compile a newer version of evince (using jhbuild) but unfortunately end up at: main.c: In function ‘main’: main.c:258: error: ‘GNOME_PARAM_POPT_TABLE’ undeclared (first use in this function) main.c:258: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once main.c:258: error: for each function it appears in.) main.c:263: error: ‘GNOME_PARAM_POPT_CONTEXT’ undeclared (first use in this function) make[3]: *** [main.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/aguelzow/cvs/gnome2/evince/shell' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/aguelzow/cvs/gnome2/evince/shell' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/aguelzow/cvs/gnome2/evince' make: *** [all] Error 2 *** error during stage build of evince: could not build module *** [1/4]
I finally succeeded compiling evince 0.5.4 with poppler 0.5.3 and now doesn't even want to let me open any pdf files. They don't show in the open dialog and if I specify one on the command line it yields the error "Unable to open document" Unhandled MIME type: "application/octet-stream".
hmm, that was a problem with jhbuild: with evince 0.5.4 with poppler 0.5.3 the background is being rendered correctly but some of the straight lines are rendered in a colour apparently picked from teh background. I will be attaching some examples images from that sample pdf file.
Created attachment 69288 [details] sample pdf file the following pictures are from this file
Created attachment 69289 [details] sample image from page 13 of the last sample file
Created attachment 69290 [details] sample image from page 22 of the last sample file
Created attachment 69291 [details] sample image from page 23 of the last sampe file
This problem is fixed in recently evince versions. Feel free to reopen if the problem persists for you with a newer evince version. Thanks for the report.