Evince fails to open "damaged" PDF file
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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evince (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Sebastien Bacher |
Bug Description
[Apologies, there appears to be no "evince" package listed]
Evince crashes when attempting to the attached PDF file and Evince's PDF
thumbnailer refuses to create a thumbnail for it.
Steps to reproduce:
* Start evince, either from the Applications menu or by typing evince from a
terminal
* Open the attached file
* After a short period, evince crashes, instead of instantly displaying the
first page of the document. On occasion you sometimes see the text "Xlib:
unexpected async reply..." when running evince from a terminal
One thing I did notice when looking through my ~/.xsession-errors file was the
following text. I believe that this came from when Evince's PDF thumbnailer
tried to generate a thumbnail image from the affected file.
Error: May not be a PDF file (continuing anyway)
Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...
Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
Error: Couldn't read xref table
Both XPDF and Acrobat Reader 7 are able to read the affected file without
problems, which I will attach shortly. So far, every other type of PDF file I
have encountered so far has not produced any problems.
I am using Evince 0.3.0, and the Breezy branch of Ubuntu. I will attach the file
that appears to crash Evince. The PDF files in question can also be found at
http://
left hand side of the page)
Created an attachment (id=2264)
PDF file that cannot be read by Evince