GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 574075
Certain PDF's has major parts of text missing
Last modified: 2009-11-04 16:10:33 UTC
Please describe the problem: the pdf document opens fine in xpdf but it doesnt show the proper text in evince. only small amounts of extra info like the date, etc. The particular document i use it for is cisco generated certificates for our students. it used to work in the past but it seems its not displaying properly any more. i think maybe cisco is using a different pdf doc generator or something with evince or maybe poppler (which it uses (i think)) is not functioning the same way it always used to Steps to reproduce: 1. try to open a cisco certificate 2. 3. Actual results: it doesnt have major parts of the text. Expected results: well nothing really. then i switch to xpdf. Does this happen every time? yes 100% Other information: try getting a cisco certificate in pdf format or i can try to mail you one. it is confidential.
I'd like to take a look with the file in question, thanks
Hi, I have the same problem when viewing the documentation of fontspec (a XeLaTeX package for selecting fonts). The PDF uses a lot of different fonts to show the possibilities of fontspec. In evince it is not displayed correctly, all the commands which one is supposed to type are invisible (cf. p. 3). xPDF displays the file correctly. You can get the document here: http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/xetex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.pdf Kind regards, Matthias Noe p.s. I'm using evince version 2.26.1 with poppler 0.10.4 (cairo).
It's a poppler issue, I've just forwarded it to freedesktop bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24918 Thanks for reporting.