Evince renders sibelius-made pdf files incorrectly

Bug #1067091 reported by David Sommen
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evince (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When a Sibelius-made Score PDF file is opened in Evince on Ubuntu 12.10, the lines, notes and lyrics etc. are rendered really badly. See attached screenshots for details.

evince:
  Installed: 3.6.0-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.6.0-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.6.0-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

What I expected to happen: the pdf looks the same as it does in Sibelius itself, or on my Macbook, or in other pdf viewers like Okular.

What happened instead: the pdf is hardly recognizable. The notes, lyrics, chords, and so on are not readable.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: evince 3.6.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 15 23:21:06 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20111007.1)
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-11 (4 days ago)

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David Sommen (davidsommen) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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David Sommen (davidsommen) wrote :

Anyone with an idea on how to fix this? Please check if my attachments work fine on your computer.

Also GIMP and PDF shuffler have the same problem. So I guess they use the same library to render the pdf.

description: updated
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Jouni Mettala (jouni-mettala) wrote :

This bug is fixed in current development version of Ubuntu and perhaps earlier.
evince: 3.31.90-1
libpoppler82: 0.71.0-2ubuntu4

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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