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Bug 634757 - Error displaying certain PDF files
Error displaying certain PDF files
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: PDF
2.32.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-11-13 15:28 UTC by jm
Modified: 2012-04-01 19:52 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
PDF file causing the error (11.60 KB, application/pdf)
2010-11-13 15:28 UTC, jm 		Details
Underlying TEX file, that was used to generate the PDF. (1.95 KB, application/x-tex)
2010-11-13 15:29 UTC, jm 		Details
Screenshot of evince and acroread rendering side by side. (860.83 KB, image/png)
2010-11-13 16:20 UTC, jm 		Details
Working PDF generated by XPDF & ps2pdf (11.48 KB, application/pdf)
2010-11-25 09:23 UTC, jm 		Details

Description jm 2010-11-13 15:28:25 UTC 
Created attachment 174394 [details]
PDF file causing the error

Evince does not display the attached PDF file correctly. The grey diagonal lines are excessing the upper grey border line (view the file with acroread to check the difference).
Comment 1 jm 2010-11-13 15:29:34 UTC 
Created attachment 174395 [details]
Underlying TEX file, that was used to generate the PDF.
Comment 2 José Aliste 2010-11-13 15:45:34 UTC 
Johannes, thanks for submitting this. Could you please attach a screenshot of evince rendering side by side of acroread rendering? (I do not have acroread to check the differences)
Comment 3 jm 2010-11-13 16:20:23 UTC 
Created attachment 174397 [details]
Screenshot of evince and acroread rendering side by side.
Comment 4 jm 2010-11-13 16:22:44 UTC 
I think the problem is caused by the Tikz pattern fill command

\draw[pattern=north west lines,pattern color=gray!25] ...

I have met similar issues in other PDF files, which I created using Latex & Tikz.
Comment 5 jm 2010-11-25 09:23:30 UTC 
Created attachment 175230 [details]
Working PDF generated by XPDF & ps2pdf

I found, that after printing the original PDF with XPDF to a .ps file and then using ps2pdf and pdfcrop the resulting PDF is rendered correctly in evince.
Comment 6 Jan de Groot 2012-04-01 19:52:43 UTC 
I can no longer reproduce this bug since GNOME 3.4 and Cairo 1.12.0. It seems cairo 1.12.0 is the fix for this bug, as downgrading to 1.10.x breaks it again.