GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 316650
Evince renders strange lines over PDF
Last modified: 2006-03-03 20:31:22 UTC
Please describe the problem: I borrowed the CD version of Discworld off a friend and noticed it had a PDF game manual. Since the PDF was rather graphics heavy I added to my suite of evince test PDFs because at 100% strange diagonal lines appear over some pages. Now I had a problem because the PDF is part of a commercial package but it appears that a smaller version of the PDF is already online. I'm sure this is illegal since the game can still be bought on budget but anyway... Steps to reproduce: 1. Download http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/replacementdocs/Discworld_Noir_-_Manual_-_PC.pdf 2. Open the downloaded file in evince. 3. Set the zoom to 100% and go to page 3 (the manual itself calls this page 4 but evince sees it as 3). Actual results: Page appears but with a strange diagonal line runing from the top left to the bottom right and a few other strange artifacts on it. Expected results: No black diagonal line or artifacts to appear, page to be displayed properly. Does this happen every time? Yes, this happens every time. Other information: Other PDF readers (e.g, acroread, xpdf) do not display artifacts.
Forgot to mention the version: evince-0.4.0-3 OpenSUSE 10 poppler-0.4.2-3 OpenSUSE 10
Is poppler using cairo or splash (see Help->About).
In Ubuntu it is using splash. It should be noted that after a recent libpoppler update in Ubuntu which was also showing the problem the diagonal artifcat went away. I shall just check on OpenSUSE...
On OpenSUSE the about box says that poppler is using cairo.
According to http://packages.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/p/poppler/poppler_0.4.2-0ubuntu4/changelog one of the recent changes was for poppler to be built with splash.
Hi, this looks like a bug with the PDF backend. Could you please follow these instructions to help get this bug fixed. Thank You. http://live.gnome.org/Evince/PopplerBugs#poppler
This may take me a while because I am no longer on a system that defaults to using the cario version of poppler (and thus currently don't see the problem)...
Sitsofe, can you please attach your document here. The link in comment #1 looks like broken
I actually tested the link last night - it is very very slow but not broken. I unfortunately can't attach the document here since it is a manual from a commercially distributed game (see my opening comment).
Well, I see, without document it would be really hard to debug this problem. I hope it will be reproduced with other document and we'll be able tofix it.