GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 332546
Evince doesn't recognize PostScript pages correctly
Last modified: 2011-10-16 02:27:02 UTC
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/32193 "For both 5.10 (Breezy) and Dapper of 2005-2-20: When opening http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/labs/learning/Theses/danar.phd.ps.gz with evince, it says there is only one page. Playing with scrollwheel a bit can bring us to next pages, but Evince insists that the total document contains 1 page. ps2pdf can make an Evince-readable pdf of this document."
This document is really broken, it has %DVIPSSection comments instead of %Page There are many links about that in Google, for example please look at that one: http://techdir.rutgers.edu/pdf.html http://www.tug.org/pipermail/oztex/2005-February/000025.html I suspect we don't wanna adopt to the non-standard ps files.
gnome-gv opens it fine, users don't care about the .ps beeing weird, they just note a feature regression compared to previous software they use, KDE, windows or whatever. Anyway that's your call, you are upstream for it
Sebastien, are you sure ggv works fine here? Mine doesn't. What is your version of ggv then?
gnome-gv is 2.12.0. Clicking on "next page" is possible but "previous page" doesn't work
This is happening for me with documents printed to file (using a ps print driver) from windows; there's no %Page in those files either. GGV allows to view all pages; evince does only show the first page. However, unexpectedly, evince can *print* all pages!
chpe: can you attach file also then?
It seems that historically there's also been something in Sun's tool chain that produced these "broken" PS files... I have a few here (that I can't attach unfortunately, as they're marked Sun Confidential). Since we'll be shipping evince in the next version of Solaris JDS, it would be a bummer if we and our customers couldn't use it to read our own documents :/
Created attachment 60416 [details] test document Test document printed from Word into file; 3 pages but evince only shows the 1st page (but Print will print all 3 pages!). ggv allows to view all three pages.
I have the same problem with this document: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~urs/oocsb/self/papers/self-power.html ps2pdf works. gs-common Versions: 0.3.9ubuntu1 evince Versions: 0.5.2-0ubuntu1
*** Bug 441154 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 467799 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This bug is still reproducible in Evince 2.22 and Evince 2.28.
This bug also occurs in Okular, so I think this is a libspectre bug. I've reported it at freedesktop.org's bugzilla: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29749 Please close this bug. Thanks!