Certain text invisible in attached PDF file

[Lex Ross]

Upstream reports:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741681
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/153

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 via https://launchpadlibrarian.net/79580879/ORelly-Running%20Linux%204th%20Edition.pdf is when one goes to page 58 of the book, at the bottom it shows the entire command, as it does in Adobe Reader:
# fdisk /dev/hda

4) What happens instead is it only shows:
#

WORKAROUND: Open with Chromium's built-in PDF viewer:
apt-cache policy chromium-browser
chromium-browser:
  Installed: 39.0.2171.65-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1064
  Candidate: 39.0.2171.65-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1064
  Version table:
 *** 39.0.2171.65-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1064 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu12.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Sep 11 12:21:58 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
KernLog:
 Sep 11 10:06:44 mars kernel: [345609.072499] type=1400 audit(1315721204.184:23): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/usr/bin/evince" pid=27132 comm="apparmor_parser"
 Sep 11 10:06:44 mars kernel: [345609.074807] type=1400 audit(1315721204.184:24): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/usr/bin/evince-previewer" pid=27132 comm="apparmor_parser"
 Sep 11 10:06:44 mars kernel: [345609.076412] type=1400 audit(1315721204.184:25): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/usr/bin/evince-thumbnailer" pid=27132 comm="apparmor_parser"
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ru:en
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-15 (148 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Still occurring on Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" beta 1.

Packages: evince 3.3.90-0ubuntu2
          libpoppler19 0.18.4-1ubuntu1
          libcairo2 1.10.2-6.1ubuntu2

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Still occurring on Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail".

uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic i686

Packages: evince 3.6.1-1ubuntu3
          libpoppler28 0.20.5-1ubuntu3
          libcairo2 1.12.14-0ubuntu1

[Francois Trahan (francois-trahan)]

Also true in Trusty

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

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.

[Adam Dingle (adam-yorba)]

This post looks relevant:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13390236/editable-pdf-fields-disappear-but-visible-on-field-focus-after-save-with-evin

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Still occurring on Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet"

evince 3.14.2-0ubuntu2
poppler 0.30.0-0ubuntu1
libcairo2 1.14.2-1ubuntu1

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Still occurring on Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial Xerus".

evince 3.18.2-1ubuntu4
poppler 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.1
libcairo2 1.14.6-1

[penalvch (penalvch)]

As per upstream, poppler issue.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Still occurring on Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic Beaver".

evince 3.28.4-0ubuntu1
poppler 0.57.0-2ubuntu5