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evince package

Evince stop rendering text with anti-aliasing after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04

Bug #1820904 reported by Qianqian Fang
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Bug Description

Evince stop rendering text with anti-aliasing after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04.

Below is the screenshot comparing Evince and Okular on the same Ubuntu 16.04 box. Before the upgrade from 14.04, Evince worked fine.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/CWIPY.png

please let me know if there is an easy fix. thanks

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. What desktop environment do you use? Does this happen on any document? Could you try on newer ubuntu series?

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Qianqian Fang (fangq) wrote :

on another machine running Ubuntu 18.04, the rendering of this PDF looks normal.

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Qianqian Fang (fangq) wrote :

would it be possible to find out which update fixed this issue and back port to 16.04? Majority of my systems (10+ boxes) are on 16.04 because many things broke (otherwise) on 18.04. I do not plan to upgrade in the next few years.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for evince (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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