Evince not displaying pdf correctly

[Nicklas Svanteson]

Evince does not display a pdf correctly. It seems like a layer or something is missing.
I have no idea of how the pdf was made but I have attached the example.pdf to this bug report. I will also attach screenshots from evince and also xpdf (which does display it correctly).

[Nicklas Svanteson (nicklas-teknister)]

Screenshot from Evince

[Nicklas Svanteson (nicklas-teknister)]

Screenshot from xpdf

[Nicklas Svanteson (nicklas-teknister)]

Also, Evince seems to slow the computer down a lot when you have the pdf file open. That is not the case with xpdf.

[Nicklas Svanteson (nicklas-teknister)]

I forgot to mention, I'm running Hardy Alpha 4 but I have the same problem on an other computer with Gutsy.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

This report has been filed here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/193927

"Evince does not display a pdf correctly. It seems like a layer or something is missing.
I have no idea of how the pdf was made but I have attached the example.pdf to this bug report. I will also attach screenshots from evince and also xpdf (which does display it correctly)."

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12128520/example.pdf
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12128526/evince.png
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12128527/xpdf.png

Thanks,

[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=14619

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

Can reproduce it on cairo backend, not with splash

[Carlos Garcia Campos (carlosgc)]

This is another bug in drawImageMaskPrescaled :-(

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Still occurring in Karmic 9.10 with all the latest updates.

Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686
poppler 0.12.0-0ubuntu2.1
evince 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Still occurring on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx alpha 2.

Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic i686
Packages:
evince 2.29.5-0ubuntu1
poppler 0.12.2-2.1ubuntu3

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Still occurring on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx alpha 2 updated to the latest version of poppler.

Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic i686
Packages:
evince 2.29.5-0ubuntu1
poppler 0.12.3-0ubuntu1
libcairo2 1.8.8-2ubuntu2

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Still occurring on Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" alpha 2 updated to the latest Ubuntu packages.

Uname: Linux 2.6.35-6-generic i686
Packages: evince 2.30.3-1ubuntu2
                  poppler 0.14.1-0ubuntu1
                  libcairo2 1.9.14-1

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Still occurring on Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" alpha 3.

Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic i686
Packages:
       evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu10
       poppler 0.16.2-0ubuntu1

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Still occurring on Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" beta 1.

Packages: evince 3.1.2-0ubuntu4
                 libpoppler13 0.16.7-2ubuntu2
                 libcairo2 1.10.2-6ubuntu3

[Patrick Pfeifer (patrick2000)]

Created attachment 55785
Fix-test-for-rotation.patch

This patch fixes the bug, which stems from the wrong assumption
that rotation can be detected by testing (matrix.xy == 0 && matrix.yx == 0) only.

Defined LOG_CAIRO in CairoOutputDev.cc and checked the output to
make sure the test works, with the old attached pdf: Edited it in vim and changed /Rotate 180 to 0, 90 and 270 ("attempting to reconstruct xref table" succeeded...). Prints "drawImageMaskPrescaled" if the mask is not rotated, and "drawImageMask" if it is, as intended.

[Carlos Garcia Campos (carlosgc)]

Comment on attachment 55785
Fix-test-for-rotation.patch

Review of attachment 55785:
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Pushed to git master, thanks!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

upstream commit:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=ce1b6c7ca16847f07eeafc29c6503be6fa5a9a3d

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package poppler - 0.18.3-0ubuntu3

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poppler (0.18.3-0ubuntu3) precise; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/git_test_rotation.patch:
    - git patch "cairo: Fix test for rotation" (lp: #193927)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:35:12 +0100