GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 556216
Evince 2.24 only shows the last page of this postscript file
Last modified: 2008-10-17 18:08:54 UTC
Please describe the problem: Evince 2.24 only seems to recognize the last page of a number of postscript files I've tested. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open testcase 1 (attached) using Evince 2.24 Actual results: I see the last page of the document (lines 164-180), with "[ 1 ] of 1" shown in the page selector on the top toolbar. (Basically, it's like Evine thinks there's just one page -- the final page.) Expected results: I should see the first page of the document (lines 1-40), with "[ 1 ] of 5" shown in the page selector on the top toolbar. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information: The testcase is quite simple -- it's generated using a plain HTML document that has "font-family: helvetica", which I then print to a Postscript file in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x (I've tried the 3.1 nightly builds as well, and it's the same). I initially filed a bug in Mozilla's bug tracker about this, but I closed it as invalid after realizing it was a bug in Evince. For reference, the Mozilla bug is: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459778 I get the above-described buggy behavior on a system running up-to-date Ubuntu 8.10 beta, with evince version 2.24.0-0ubuntu2 (as listed in "apt-cache show evince") However, I get expected behavior (5 pages shown) on another system running Ubuntu 8.04, with evince version 2.22.1.1-0ubuntu1 (as listed in "apt-cache show evince")
Created attachment 120548 [details] testcase 1 This is the postscript file, of which Evince 2.24 only shows the last page.
Created attachment 120549 [details] source HTML for testcase 1 Here's the source HTML for the testcase, copied from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=342993 To generate a postscript file like the one I just attached, you can simply load this HTML file in Firefox 3.0.x / 3.1pre, do Ctrl-P to print, and choose "print to file".
What libspectre version do you have installed? It's not reproducible for me with libspectre 0.2.1
(In reply to comment #3) > What libspectre version do you have installed? It's not reproducible for me > with libspectre 0.2.1 Ah -- I have libspectre version 0.2.0, on *both* machines. Here are the specific versions, from "apt-cache show libspectre1": (Working) Ubuntu 8.04 machine: 0.2.0.ds-1build1 (Buggy) Ubuntu 8.10 machine: 0.2.0.ds-1build3 I suppose it's possible (but unlikely?) that there was a bug introduced between Ubuntu's 'build1' and 'build3'. Or maybe Evince 2.24 depends on features only available in libspectre 0.2.1? Also, I forgot to mention earlier -- my working Ubuntu 8.04 machine has Evince version "2.22.2-0ubuntu1"
I confirm it's reproducible with libspectre 0.2.0 but not with 0.2.1. Thanks for reporting.
(In reply to comment #5) Carlos: You seem to be suggesting that this is just a bug in libspectre 0.2.0, but that hasn't yet been demonstrated to be true. As I pointed out (but perhaps didn't emphasize enough) in comment 4, libspectre 0.2.0 is *fine* with Evince 2.22.2 (in Ubuntu 8.0.4). It only has issues with the upgraded Evince 2.24 (in Ubuntu 8.10). Hence, I don't think resolving as NOTGNOME is appropriate at this point. Reopening.
No, I'm sure it's a libspectre issue, I've checked it with the libspectre sources. $ git checkout 0.2.0 Note: moving to "0.2.0" which isn't a local branch If you want to create a new branch from this checkout, you may do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example: git checkout -b <new_branch_name> HEAD is now at 14e516b... Update for release 0.2.0 $ ./autogen.sh && make ...... $ cd test $ ./spectre-test /tmp/test.ps /tmp/spc/ Testing libspectre version: 0.2.0 process 8981: spectre_document_load: assertion `document != NULL' failed (spectre-document.c:57) Rendering document Rendering document at 2x Document format: PS-Adobe-3.0 Postscript language level: 2 Encapsulated PostScript: No Number of pages: 1 Title: (null) Creator: cairo 1.7.6 (http://cairographics.org) For: (null) Creation date: Mon Oct 13 20:22:04 2008 Document Orientation: Portrait Page 0 Page label: (null) Page size: 612 x 792 Page orientation: Portrait Error getting page 0 by its label (null): page is invalid Rendering page 0 slice 204, 264, 204, 264 Rendering page 0 in a4 page Note that only one page has been rendered. $ cd .. $ git checkout master Switched to branch "master" $ ./autogen.sh && make ..... $ cd test $ ./spectre-test /tmp/test.ps /tmp/spc/ Testing libspectre version: 0.2.1 process 15343: spectre_document_load: assertion `document != NULL' failed (spectre-document.c:57) Rendering document Rendering document at 2x Document format: PS-Adobe-3.0 Postscript language level: 2 Encapsulated PostScript: No Number of pages: 5 Title: (null) Creator: cairo 1.7.6 (http://cairographics.org) For: (null) Creation date: Mon Oct 13 20:22:04 2008 Document Orientation: Portrait Page 0 Page label: 1 Page size: 612 x 792 Page orientation: Portrait Page 1 Page label: 2 Page size: 612 x 792 Page orientation: Portrait Page 2 Page label: 3 Page size: 612 x 792 Page orientation: Portrait Page 3 Page label: 4 Page size: 612 x 792 Page orientation: Portrait Page 4 Page label: 5 Page size: 612 x 792 Page orientation: Portrait Rendering page 0 slice 204, 264, 204, 264 Rendering page 0 in a4 page Note that five pages have been rendered. If it worked for you with evince 2.22 is probably because it was compiled with the gs backend instead of the libspectre one. Hopefully, there will be new libspectre packages for ubuntu intrepid.
(In reply to comment #7) > If it worked for you with evince 2.22 > is probably because it was compiled with the gs backend instead of the > libspectre one. Ah, that makes sense -- thanks for the explanation!