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Bug 745199 - PDF highlight annotations don't print correctly
PDF highlight annotations don't print correctly
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: printing
3.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-02-26 08:38 UTC by Anders Damsgaard
Modified: 2015-02-27 18:34 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Example pdf (51.97 KB, application/pdf)
2015-02-26 08:39 UTC, Anders Damsgaard
Details
Photo of the printed example pdf (506.89 KB, image/jpeg)
2015-02-26 08:41 UTC, Anders Damsgaard
Details
example.pdf printed to file from evince. (38.32 KB, application/pdf)
2015-02-26 12:20 UTC, Anders Damsgaard
Details

Description Anders Damsgaard 2015-02-26 08:38:36 UTC
I have a PDF (attached) with several highlighting-type annotations. They are all rendered correctly on-screen.

When I print the document a few of the highlights are handled correctly. Most of them have the yellow highlighting rendered on top of the font, however, thus hiding the text of interest (see attached photo).

Attached:
example.tar.gz containing example.pdf and example.jpg.
Comment 1 Anders Damsgaard 2015-02-26 08:39:45 UTC
Created attachment 297951 [details]
Example pdf

Attachment of the original archive failed. The example pdf and jpg are attached separately.
Comment 2 Anders Damsgaard 2015-02-26 08:41:52 UTC
Created attachment 297952 [details]
Photo of the printed example pdf

Attachment of the original archive failed. The example pdf and jpg are attached separately.
Comment 3 José Aliste 2015-02-26 11:35:35 UTC
can you print to a pdf and then see what happens there?
Comment 4 Anders Damsgaard 2015-02-26 12:20:07 UTC
(In reply to José Aliste from comment #3)
> can you print to a pdf and then see what happens there?

The result is the same as when I print it with the printer, i.e. highlights obscuring the text. 

The resultant pdf is attached as `example_to_pdf.pdf`.
Comment 5 Anders Damsgaard 2015-02-26 12:20:32 UTC
Created attachment 297966 [details]
example.pdf printed to file from evince.
Comment 6 José Aliste 2015-02-26 21:33:35 UTC
Thanks, indeed this is a bug in the cairo backend of Poppler. Could you please file a bug in bugs.freedesktop.org in product:poppler, component:Cairo backend and attach both the example file and the pdf printed from evince? Most importantly, don't forget to verify which version of poppler do you have.
Comment 7 Anders Damsgaard 2015-02-27 09:35:53 UTC
Thanks José!

For reference, the bug report can be found here:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89355