text is inverted in some PDFs

[Karol Bryd]

Text is inverted (mirrored) in some PDFs. Problem has been already resolved and there is a patch available for it, however it was not applied to Ubuntu libpoppler1 package.

Here are links to reported bugs:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420148
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8944 (this one contains the patch)

I have applied the patch to current libpoppler1 source and I can confirm that it fixes the problem.

It would be good to provide new package version before Feisty release....

[Jeff Muizelaar (jeff-infidigm)]

Should be fixed in cvs. If not reopen.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8924 ***

[Jeremy Messenger (mezz)]

Reopen it, I have taken poppler/CairoOutputDev.cc rev. 1.45 patch and it
doesn't fix the same PDF above link. I will attaching a patch in case if I did
something wrong by took from CVS.

[Jeremy Messenger (mezz)]

Created an attachment (id=7717)
took from poppler/CairoOutputDev.cc rev. 1.45.

[Jeff Muizelaar (jeff-infidigm)]

Are you sure that you are using a poppler with the patch that you attached? I
can not reproduce the problem here.

[Jeremy Messenger (mezz)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Are you sure that you are using a poppler with the patch that you attached? I
> can not reproduce the problem here.

Sorry, you are right about that this patch has fixed this problem. I have mixed
up with the between of poppler vs poppler-gtk when I tested with evince on
FreeBSD. After the rebuild of both poppler(-gtk) with the patch and it works
now. Marking this as closing.

[Karol Bryd (karolbe)]

Text is inverted (mirrored) in some PDFs. Problem has been already resolved and there is a patch available for it, however it was not applied to Ubuntu libpoppler1 package.

Here are links to reported bugs:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420148
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8944 (this one contains the patch)

I have applied the patch to current libpoppler1 source and I can confirm that it fixes the problem.

It would be good to provide new package version before Feisty release....

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Patch in question: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=7717&action=view

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

We'll look into it for Feisty Release.

[Karol Bryd (karolbe)]

Bug is still not fixed!!! I have just upgraded system and libpoppler-0.5.4-0ubuntu7 is broken...

Come one people, it's 20 lines patch, please apply it before Feisty release...

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Patch confirmed to work.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

 poppler (0.5.4-0ubuntu8) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/005_fix_inverted_text_from_bug_8944.patch:
     - fixes "text is inverted in some PDFs" (LP: #93772)

[inkThumb (eswint)]

This is listed as Resolved, but the problem is still occurring with evince 0.8.2/poppler 0.5.4 (cairo). Numerous other reports of this bug to gnome's bugzilla as bug 366475 in 2007. What is the flow for getting this fix into the main stream?

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

It is integrated in the main stream because we ARE the main poppler source, if you have problems with Ubuntu packages complaint to them.

[Jeremy Messenger (mezz)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> This is listed as Resolved, but the problem is still occurring with evince
> 0.8.2/poppler 0.5.4 (cairo). Numerous other reports of this bug to gnome's
> bugzilla as bug 366475 in 2007. What is the flow for getting this fix into the
> main stream?
>

Your Poppler and Evince are out of date. Current there have Poppler 0.6.3 and Evince 2.20.2 (or 2.21.1 development version).

[inkThumb (eswint)]

I'm running Fedora 7. I'll take the issue up in Fedora Forums - thanks.