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Bug 502806 - Evince Does Not Correctly Display PDF Unless You Select Text
Evince Does Not Correctly Display PDF Unless You Select Text
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: PDF
2.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-12-10 08:48 UTC by adam
Modified: 2008-07-27 10:15 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description adam 2007-12-10 08:48:55 UTC 
Description of problem:
When opening certain PDFs in Evince, the document comes up partially blank.  It
is only when you select the text in the document that it appears and becomes
readable.  It returns to a blank/unreadable status if you undo the text selection.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evince-2.20.1-1.fc8

How reproducible:
100% with an affected document

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open PDF in Evince
2. See text in PDF is missing
3. Select text with cursor, becomes readable
4. Unselect text with cursor, becomes unreadable again
  
Actual results:
PDF is unreadable without selecting the text

Expected results:
PDF should be readable without needing to select text

Additional info:
The PDF can be downloaded from http://www.physco.com/evince/SP07_National_Satellite_P12.pdf.  It is the Arbitron National Satellite Report for Spring 2007.

The missing text in the attached PDF starts at the table on page 4, and runs to
the end of the document on page 11.
Comment 1 adam 2007-12-10 08:50:30 UTC 
Bug continues to exist in evince-2.20.2-1.fc8.
Comment 2 adam 2008-06-21 06:04:40 UTC 
Bug continues to exist in Gnome 2.22.2 and Evince 2.22.2
Comment 3 Baptiste Mille-Mathias 2008-07-20 20:05:11 UTC 
it is related to evince or to libpoppler?
if the latter the bug should be forwarded to libpoppler bugtracker.
Comment 4 adam 2008-07-21 03:22:48 UTC 
I'm not sure.  Is there a way for me to test and determine which part is the problem?
Comment 5 Baptiste Mille-Mathias 2008-07-26 14:46:13 UTC 
the bug is still present in evince 2.23.5 with poppler 0.8.4.
Adam I was asking the question to evince maintainer.
Comment 6 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2008-07-27 08:16:30 UTC 
It's a poppler bug.
Comment 7 Baptiste Mille-Mathias 2008-07-27 08:51:25 UTC 
Nicolay, 

should the bug be forwarded to poppler ? or was it already reported?

thanks
Comment 8 Carlos Garcia Campos 2008-07-27 10:15:53 UTC 
It's already reported and fixed, so it's probably a different problem, I commented it here anyway: 

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9846