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Bug 514881 - Evince displays math equations incorrectly in dvi file
Evince displays math equations incorrectly in dvi file
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: backends
2.21.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-02-06 22:41 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2018-05-22 13:20 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22



Description Sebastien Bacher 2008-02-06 22:41:26 UTC
The bug has been opened on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/162111

"Binary package hint: evince

I am using Evince to view a TexLive compilation of an Optics Express paper that I am trying to submit in DVI format. The paper displays correctly in xdvi, but not in Evince. Evince is much better in general than xdvi, so I would prefer to use it. Evince does not display many parts of my math equations correctly. It seems to be some kind of font issue, but I cannot figure out how to fix it.

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10336225/Screenshot-OpEx_style2.dvi.png
Screenshot of incorrect display (196.4 KiB, image/png)
Here is a Screen shot of the incorrectly displayed equation

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10336226/Screenshot-XDVI-OpEx_style2.dvi.png
Screenshot of correct display (146.5 KiB, image/png)
Here is a Screen shot of the correctly displayed equation as displayed by xdvi

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10336227/OpEx_style2.dvi
Actual DVI file (70.8 KiB, application/x-dvi)
Here is the dvi in question"
Comment 1 Carlos Garcia Campos 2008-02-08 11:15:15 UTC
When opening it with evince I can see a lot of error and warning messages in stdout:

OpEx_style2.dvi[5]: Error: font 1 is not defined
OpEx_style2.dvi[5]: Warning: zptmcm7y: vf macro had errors

Comment 2 Carlos Garcia Campos 2008-02-08 11:16:52 UTC
hmm, xdvi also shows warnings:

$ xdvi OpEx_style2.dvi 
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset

althought it works anyway. 
Comment 3 Ángel Guzmán Maeso (shakaran) 2009-05-07 01:38:46 UTC
Some progress with this bug? I just check the date of report.
Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 13:20:56 UTC
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