Search is disabled when reading postscript documents

[dierre]

Binary package hint: evince

Upstream URL:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/issues/20

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 to happen is when one opens the attached file via evince, one may search via Ctrl+F:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/159300/+attachment/4278783/+files/diplom.ps

4) What happens instead is it is greyed out.

WORKAROUND: Convert the ps into pdf with ps2pdf, and then open the PDF with evince.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 1 17:10:33 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evince 2.20.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: evince diplom.pdf
ProcCwd: /home/fdr/uni/Linkoping/papers
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux maggie 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[TerryG (tgalati4)]

Thanks for your bug submission. Marking as Confirmed to preserve reporter's comments.

Can you open the ps document in acroread 8 and use the find command?

[dierre (fdr)]

If I try to open the *PS* in acroread 8 it complains that it could not open it "because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded).

The document with which I discovered the bug is in the tarball at:
http://www.pms.ifi.lmu.de/software/jack/docu/jase-diplom.ps.gz

(Please note that I am not the author of such document, I just needed to read it)

[Jaakko Seppälä (jaakkoseppala)]

I found that find is also disabled when reading a dvi file.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is known upstream, you can read about it on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321910

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Original file, downloaded, ungzipped, and attached.