Evince Document Viewer 2.20.0 fails to read Arabic PDFs

[Hassan Dibani]

Binary package hint: evince

eveince on gutsy does not correctly read arabic pdf files. it does open it, but most of the text is hidden (white) and misplaced.

the same pdf is correctly read on the feisty live CD. (Evince 0.8.1)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 11 17:08:37 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
NonfreeKernelModules: vmnet vmmon
Package: evince 2.20.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/evince /tmp/1.pdf
ProcCwd: /home/hassan
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux nlw157703 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Wed Oct 10 06:00:47 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

Can only reproduce it with the cairo backend

[Hassan Dibani (hassan-maroc-linux)]

Binary package hint: evince

eveince on gutsy does not correctly read arabic pdf files. it does open it, but most of the text is hidden (white) and misplaced.

the same pdf is correctly read on the feisty live CD. (Evince 0.8.1)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 11 17:08:37 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
NonfreeKernelModules: vmnet vmmon
Package: evince 2.20.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/evince /tmp/1.pdf
ProcCwd: /home/hassan
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux nlw157703 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Wed Oct 10 06:00:47 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Hassan Dibani (hassan-maroc-linux)]

here is a sample pdf file

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12779

[Carlos Garcia Campos (carlosgc)]

It's should be fixed now. Thanks for reporting.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

the bug has been fixed upstream, thanks for reporting.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the new version is in karmic now

[emigrant (fromwindowstolinux)]

hi all,
im still having this problem in jaunty,
some pdfs show arabic while some not.
and the same pfd won't show arabic in a fresh karmic install.
what should i do?

thank you very much.

[emigrant (fromwindowstolinux)]

hi,
this is an attachment of the screenshot from the pdf. the place is white where the arabic texts should be.
the original pdf im referring is 30 mb and thousands of page. please forgive me that im unable to rip a few pages of it to put here.

thank you very much

[emigrant (fromwindowstolinux)]

here is the sample of the pdf. which doesnt show the arabic text.

[NoOp (glgxg)]

output.pdf does not render the arabic text properly even with Adobe Reader 9.2 (linux) or Adobe Acrobat (Windows). Attached is a page that can be used for testing (page7.pdf). Using Adobe Reader 9.2 (linux) the arabic renders properly. Using Evince, or even Okular, the results are the same as the screenshot provided in comment #7.

[NoOp (glgxg)]

Sorry, forgot to add:

$ apt-cache policy evince
evince:
  Installed: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2
  Candidate: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2
  Version table:
 *** 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.28.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
$ apt-cache policy okular
okular:
  Installed: 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ apt-cache policy acroread
acroread:
  Installed: 9.2-1karmic1
  Candidate: 9.2-1karmic1
  Version table:
 *** 9.2-1karmic1 0
        500 http://archive.canonical.com karmic/partner Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[louaym (louaym2)]

I confirm this problem still not resolved

$apt-cache policy evince
evince:
  Installed: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2
  Candidate: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2
  Version table:
 *** 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.28.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages