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Bug 741704 - PDF saved with master pdf editor, shows top ~5% of lines missing in evince
PDF saved with master pdf editor, shows top ~5% of lines missing in evince
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-12-18 11:00 UTC by Christopher M. Penalver
Modified: 2017-04-28 12:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
vertically truncated lines (17.39 KB, image/png)
2017-04-19 11:49 UTC, kardan 		Details

Description Christopher M. Penalver 2014-12-18 11:00:19 UTC 
Downstream report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1150112

1) lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch)
Release:	15.04

2) apt-cache policy evince libcairo2 libpoppler[0-9]
evince:
  Installed: 3.14.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.14.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.14.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libcairo2:
  Installed: 1.13.0~20140204-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.13.0~20140204-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.13.0~20140204-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libpoppler47:
  Installed: 0.28.1-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.28.1-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.28.1-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) What is expected to happen via https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1150112/+attachment/3560850/+files/test.pdf is that it looks as it does in Adobe Reader.

4) What happens instead is it looks as if the top 5% of sentences are removed as per https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1150112/+attachment/4277028/+files/samples.jpg .
Comment 1 kardan 2017-04-19 11:49:51 UTC 
Created attachment 350061 [details]
vertically truncated lines

Same for PDFs exported with Calamus [calamus.net].

Maybe helpful:

$ evince /path/to/file.pdf
(evince:32434): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -40 and height 28
(evince:32434): Gtk-WARNING **: Negative content width -23 (allocation 1, extents 12x12) while allocating gadget (node label, owner GtkLabel)

$ lsb_release -rd
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 9.0 (stretch)
Release:        9.0

$ apt-cache policy evince libcairo2 libpoppler[0-9]
evince:
  Installed: 3.22.1-3
  Candidate: 3.22.1-3
  Version table:
 *** 3.22.1-3 500
        500 tor://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libcairo2:
  Installed: 1.14.8-1
  Candidate: 1.14.8-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.14.8-1 500
        500 tor://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libpoppler46:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
     0.26.5-4 -1
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libpoppler64:
  Installed: 0.48.0-2
  Candidate: 0.48.0-2
  Version table:
 *** 0.48.0-2 500
        500 tor://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Comment 2 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2017-04-28 12:00:35 UTC 
This is a bug in Poppler, in particular in the poppler cairo frontend.

The Bug has been reported upstream in Poppler:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100866