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Bug 316822 - evince displays garbage in a pdf file
evince displays garbage in a pdf file
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-09-21 02:39 UTC by john bray
Modified: 2005-12-27 22:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10

Attachments
screenshot of the problem (89.82 KB, image/png)
2005-09-26 19:14 UTC, john bray 		Details
the offending pdf (32.11 KB, application/pdf)
2005-09-26 19:19 UTC, john bray 		Details

Description john bray 2005-09-21 02:39:14 UTC 
Distribution/Version: FC4

i opened a pdf file from evolution.  most of the text is garbage.  i opened the
same file in xpdf, kpdf, and kghostview.  in all of these three, it displays
proper text.

i have both the offending pdf and a screenshot of what is displayed, which i can
email if you'd like.  don't know how to attach them herein.
Comment 1 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2005-09-21 07:28:24 UTC 
Please use the "Create a New Attachment" link to attach them here...
Comment 2 john bray 2005-09-26 19:14:56 UTC 
Created attachment 52695 [details]
screenshot of the problem
Comment 3 john bray 2005-09-26 19:19:00 UTC 
Created attachment 52696 [details]
the offending pdf

this is the pdf which causes the problem shown in the screen shot.  it was
likely generated on an apple box.
Comment 4 john bray 2005-09-26 19:21:57 UTC 
well, duh!  how did i miss such an obvious way to attach? sheesh!
Comment 5 Brent Smith (smitten) 2005-09-30 17:44:42 UTC 
This PDF renders fine for me on evince 0.4.0/poppler 0.4.2 (cairo)

Here's what the text says at the top

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: David Lyles <phone number here>
COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS GO FINE ART
Comment 6 john bray 2005-10-01 06:42:26 UTC 
so.  did you look at the screen shot i attached?  i can see that text.  but all
the rest of it is unintelligible -- only in evince, not xpdf, et. al.
poppler-0.4.1-1.1 
FC4 rpms poppler and evince.
Comment 7 Brent Smith (smitten) 2005-10-01 15:59:51 UTC 
yeah I did look at the screenshot, I don't know why I pasted that text, I can
see all the other text as well.
Comment 8 Olivier Le Thanh Duong 2005-10-31 02:24:38 UTC 
This is probably a dup of bug 316620.
John, is it possible for you to update your version of poppler and see if this
bug  still happen?
Comment 9 agilmore 2005-12-27 16:44:10 UTC 
I had problems with this pdf, using poppler 0.4.1. I updated to 0.4.3 and the problem no longer occurred.
Comment 10 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2005-12-27 22:47:51 UTC 
Thanks a lot for testing again :)

Let everyone feel free to reopen if problem still appears, but I am closing
now.