GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 687419
evince not displaying text in pdf document
Last modified: 2012-11-04 21:14:10 UTC
Created attachment 227878 [details] Flyer A5 size intended to advertise a scouting section I'm using evince 3.6.0 on a Ubuntu 12.10 system on a Dell inspiron 1545, pentium dual core CPU T4400 & the graphics reported as Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset x86/MMX/SSE2 . I've found that some .pdf's are not fully displaying on evince. I'm a Scout leader in the UK & I created a flyer using the print centre available to leaders. The flyer consists of a background with images & then boxes containing contact details, venue's etc. The background poster is displaying, but not the boxes with the other information. Does not relate to all of the posters / flyers created using the software on the site. Using the same laptop I've viewed the whole .pdf flyer using ImageMagick (display), but also found that gimp (2.8) suffers from the same problem & only displays the background images. Strangely enough the whole .pdf flyer displays well on my android phone using kindle. The problem does not seem to be related to file size, as evince is happily displaying some files that are much larger. One of the flyers with the problem is attached to this report. Please don't hesitate to contact me if I can help in any way further.
The text is there, but it is now shown properly. I mean, I can select the text, copy and paste it to gedit. That said, it seems a bug in poppler. When I render the document with poppler-glib-demo, I get the following output in the console: $ poppler-glib-demo /tmp/D00196233_00001.pdf Document successfully loaded in 0.0020 seconds some font thing failed some font thing failed some font thing failed some font thing failed some font thing failed some font thing failed some font thing failed some font thing failed some font thing failed some font thing failed some font thing failed some font thing failed some font thing failed some font thing failed some font thing failed some font thing failed some font thing failed some font thing failed some font thing failed some font thing failed some font thing failed some font thing failed
This bug has been reported in poppler's bugzilla. You can follow it at: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56753 For more information, see: https://live.gnome.org/Evince/PopplerBugs#poppler