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Bug 781562 - simple-scan created pdf document has incorrect created and modified dates
simple-scan created pdf document has incorrect created and modified dates
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: PDF
3.24.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-04-20 21:22 UTC by Chris Murphy
Modified: 2018-05-22 17:07 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
sample PDF exhibiting problem (147.99 KB, application/pdf)
2017-04-20 21:22 UTC, Chris Murphy 		Details
evince properties (57.82 KB, image/png)
2017-04-20 21:24 UTC, Chris Murphy 		Details
acrobat properties (77.07 KB, image/png)
2017-04-20 21:25 UTC, Chris Murphy 		Details

Description Chris Murphy 2017-04-20 21:22:45 UTC 
Created attachment 350169 [details]
sample PDF exhibiting problem

evince-3.24.0-1.fc26.x86_64

Problem: Any PDF created in simple-scan, when opened in evince and show Properties, the created and modified dates are incorrect.


Speculate that maybe evince is confused due to these PDF's claiming PDF/A compliance, rather than being regular PDFs. With hexdump -C at offset 0x2a0 I can see there's xmp metadata showing the correct date. Adobe Reader properties on this PDF show the correct date as well. So this seems to be an evince bug.
Comment 1 Chris Murphy 2017-04-20 21:24:17 UTC 
Created attachment 350170 [details]
evince properties

This is evince's properties dialog on the attached document showing wrong Created and Modified dates in 1969.
Comment 2 Chris Murphy 2017-04-20 21:25:59 UTC 
Created attachment 350171 [details]
acrobat properties

Current version of Acrobat Reader on macOS, properties on same PDF shows correct dates.
Comment 3 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2017-04-30 17:42:26 UTC 
IIRC, XMP metadata is not parsed by Poppler. Instead is given as a blob to be parsed later by the application (evince in this case) I guess.
Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 17:07:00 UTC 
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