GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 741704
PDF saved with master pdf editor, shows top ~5% of lines missing in evince
Last modified: 2017-04-28 12:00:35 UTC
Downstream report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1150112 1) lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch) Release: 15.04 2) apt-cache policy evince libcairo2 libpoppler[0-9] evince: Installed: 3.14.1-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 3.14.1-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 3.14.1-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status libcairo2: Installed: 1.13.0~20140204-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 1.13.0~20140204-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 1.13.0~20140204-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status libpoppler47: Installed: 0.28.1-1ubuntu1 Candidate: 0.28.1-1ubuntu1 Version table: *** 0.28.1-1ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3) What is expected to happen via https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1150112/+attachment/3560850/+files/test.pdf is that it looks as it does in Adobe Reader. 4) What happens instead is it looks as if the top 5% of sentences are removed as per https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1150112/+attachment/4277028/+files/samples.jpg .
Created attachment 350061 [details] vertically truncated lines Same for PDFs exported with Calamus [calamus.net]. Maybe helpful: $ evince /path/to/file.pdf (evince:32434): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -40 and height 28 (evince:32434): Gtk-WARNING **: Negative content width -23 (allocation 1, extents 12x12) while allocating gadget (node label, owner GtkLabel) $ lsb_release -rd Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.0 (stretch) Release: 9.0 $ apt-cache policy evince libcairo2 libpoppler[0-9] evince: Installed: 3.22.1-3 Candidate: 3.22.1-3 Version table: *** 3.22.1-3 500 500 tor://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status libcairo2: Installed: 1.14.8-1 Candidate: 1.14.8-1 Version table: *** 1.14.8-1 500 500 tor://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status libpoppler46: Installed: (none) Candidate: (none) Version table: 0.26.5-4 -1 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status libpoppler64: Installed: 0.48.0-2 Candidate: 0.48.0-2 Version table: *** 0.48.0-2 500 500 tor://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
This is a bug in Poppler, in particular in the poppler cairo frontend. The Bug has been reported upstream in Poppler: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100866