Highlighted text in pdf files is not shown on prints

[Andreas Mieke]

Highghted text in pdf files is shown correctly in the viewer, but not in the print preview & the printouts, there only a yellow bar (the highlighting) is visible, and the actual text is behind it (since it is selectable in the print preview).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: evince 3.14.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-16.16-generic 3.19.3
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun May 10 12:11:42 2015
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince-previewer
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-05-06 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Alexey (alexey-muranov)]

In fact, there seem to be multiple issues with printing annotations (at least text highlighting).

This is about Evince 3.36.7 and Okular 20.08.2.

1. If a highlighting annotation is created in Evince, it is visible when the file is opened with Evince, Okular, or Xournal++, but it disappears on printing to PDF file from any of these programs, and it disappears on exporting to PDF from Xournal++. (I believe it also disappears on actual printing.)

2. If a highlighting annotation is created in Okular, it is visible in Evince, Okular, and Xournal++, but when printing to PDF from Evince or Xournal++, the first highlighting is ok, but all the others hide the text that is supposed to be highlighted.

[Alexey (alexey-muranov)]

To add to my point 2: the same effect happens when using `pdftocairo` in command line, so maybe the current issue is not about Evince.

It remains the problem with annotations created in Evince that just disappear on printing.