GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 760863
Evince does not render PDF document
Last modified: 2016-09-29 19:41:18 UTC
Created attachment 319378 [details] stderr output to the --gdk-debug run Hi, I have downloaded this document: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2015/549034/EXPO_STU%282015%29549034_EN.pdf to my desktop and opened it in Evince. The *first* time document opens correctly. However, afterwards the document opens but all the pages appear blank except for the header. I can use the mouse to select blocks of content in the pages but, there is nothing visible. I thought that perhaps the document is corrupt for some reason but, that is not the case. For instance, i can view the document correctly via Firefox's built-in PDF viewer (PDFJS). I also ran Evince on that (downloaded) document with debug options (both GDK-DEBUG and GTK-DEBUG) and it appears that both output refers to some font issue: --8<--8<-- font type 9 not handled some font thing failed --8<--8<-- I've attached the stderr output to the --gdk-debug run to this report. I am running Ubuntu 15.10 in case this info is also important. Thanks in advance for looking into the problem.
It renders the first page, but the other pages it seems to render only the lines and images, not the text (except the header). Anyhow, the issue is in poppler (the library used by Evince to render PDF). Specifically, in the poppler-cairo backend. It is possible to reproduce the issue with: $ pdftocairo -png EXPO_STU(2015)549034_EN.pdf However, the following works fine: $ pdftoppm -png EXPO_STU(2015)549034_EN.pdf foo Please, file a bug in Poppler bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=poppler
Already reported and fixed in freedesktop.