GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 767491
Misplaced annotations
Last modified: 2017-09-26 19:51:27 UTC
A pdf file [1] which can be found on the servers of the german Ludwigs-Maximilians-University can not be annotated properly. Though it displays correctly, any annotations made through evince result in misplaced highlights. Running ghostscript on the file fixed the problem: # gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile="a.pdf" block01_2x2_1.pdf Therefore the bug may also occur due to a pourly generated pdf. [1] http://www.stablab.stat.uni-muenchen.de/sites/files/block01_2x2_1.pdf
That link is dead now. Could you reupload it? I'm having the same problem with Evince 3.24.0 with science papers. Often Elsevier papers. The content is copyrighted so I can't upload it.
Also, running the gs command didn't fix it for me.
For those with access to science papers: this is one of the affected files: http://www.demajournal.com/article/S0109-5641(12)00456-3/fulltext
I fixed that paper by running: pdftocairo -pdf paper.pdf paper_repaired.pdf Annotations work normally now.
Sorry, but I am unable to reproduce the above mentioned file. I assumed they would keep hosting it there for at least a couple of years, but apparently I was wrong.
Thanks for taking the time to report this. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 768246 ***