Evince fails to display some PostScript files correctly

Bug #1266542 reported by Mark
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
evince (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

Upstream URL:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/issues/423

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

2) apt-cache policy evince
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

3) What is expected to happen opening https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1266542/+attachment/4287301/+files/News.ps is all three pages are shown.

4) What happens instead is only one page is visible. This was first reported in Lubuntu 13.10, with Evince 3.10.0.

WORKAROUND: Convert to PDF via ps2pdfwr.

WORKAROUND: Open via gv.

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Mark (mark-k) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Mark (mark-k) wrote :

I entered this issue on the GNOME Bugzilla, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721819

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks!

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in evince:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → New
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penalvch (penalvch) wrote :
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description: updated
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tags: added: bionic
description: updated
no longer affects: evince (Ubuntu)
affects: evince → evince (Ubuntu)
Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
importance: Medium → Low
status: New → Triaged
no longer affects: evince (Ubuntu)
affects: evince → evince (Ubuntu)
Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
importance: Unknown → Undecided
status: Unknown → New
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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