Evince and Okular do not reproduce characters in a PDF file accurately

[rusivi2]

Binary package hint: evince

1) lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04

2) apt-cache policy libpoppler-glib4
libpoppler-glib4:
  Installed: 0.12.4-0ubuntu5
  Candidate: 0.12.4-0ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 0.12.4-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.12.4-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

apt-cache policy evince
evince:
  Installed: 2.30.3-0ubuntu1.1
  Candidate: 2.30.3-0ubuntu1.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.30.3-0ubuntu1.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.30.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

 apt-cache policy openoffice.org-writer
openoffice.org-writer:
  Installed: 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.1
  Candidate: 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

apt-cache policy acroread
acroread:
  Installed: 9.3.3-1lucid1
  Candidate: 9.3.3-1lucid1
  Version table:
 *** 9.3.3-1lucid1 0
        500 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ lucid/partner Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) What I expected to happen is when I create a .odt file in openoffice writer (please see attached example.odt file) input white dot symbols, and export the file to PDF, both Evince and Adobe Reader for Linux show the same thing.

4) What happened instead is that in Evince, each white dot is an infinity symbol, while Adobe Acrobat for Linux accurately reproduces the white dot.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: evince 2.30.3-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 18 11:55:22 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
KernLog:
 Aug 16 23:50:33 name-laptop kernel: [279394.048276] [<c0321b65>] ? apparmor_socket_sendmsg+0x15/0x20
 Aug 17 10:46:10 name-laptop kernel: [288115.801401] [<c0321b65>] ? apparmor_socket_sendmsg+0x15/0x20
 Aug 18 11:24:06 name-laptop kernel: [345974.785716] type=1505 audit(1282145046.397:18): operation="profile_replace" pid=3532 name="/usr/bin/evince"
 Aug 18 11:24:06 name-laptop kernel: [345974.787158] type=1505 audit(1282145046.397:19): operation="profile_replace" pid=3532 name="/usr/bin/evince-previewer"
 Aug 18 11:24:06 name-laptop kernel: [345974.788234] type=1505 audit(1282145046.397:20): operation="profile_replace" pid=3532 name="/usr/bin/evince-thumbnailer"
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Exported example.odt to example.pdf file.

[Timmy Shih Jun Yee (shijun)]

I've opened example.pdf and I see the infinity symbols in both Evince and Okular, which confirms that this is a problem with Poppler (the PDF backend for Evince and Okular).

Marking the bug as such.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" alpha 3, with packages updated to the latest official versions. I also have installed poppler-data. I can see both the black dots and the white dots, but no infinity symbols. Marking as fix released.

Uname: Linux 2.6.35-14-generic i686
Package versions: evince 2.31.90-0ubuntu1
                              libpoppler-glib5 0.14.2.real-0ubuntu1
                              libpoppler6 0.14.2.is.0.14.1-0ubuntu1
                              libpoppler7 0.14.2.real-0ubuntu1
                              poppler-data 0.4.2-1

[Timmy Shih Jun Yee (shijun)]

I've confirmed that this bug has been fixed in Okular on Maverick.

(Tested with packages okular 4:4.5.0b-0ubuntu3 and libpoppler7 0.14.2.real-0ubuntu1.)

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Updated to Ubuntu 10.10, same problem in Evince:

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu maverick (development branch)
Release: 10.10

apt-cache policy evince
evince:
  Installed: 2.31.90-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.31.90-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 2.31.90-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

apt-cache policy apt-cache policy libpoppler-glib4
libpoppler-glib4:
  Installed: 0.12.4-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.12.4-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.12.4-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
N: Unable to locate package apt-cache
N: Unable to locate package policy

apt-cache policy openoffice.org-writer
openoffice.org-writer:
  Installed: 1:3.2.1-6ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:3.2.1-6ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.2.1-6ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

apt-cache policy libpoppler5
libpoppler5:
  Installed: 0.12.4-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.12.4-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.12.4-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

 apt-cache policy poppler-utils
poppler-utils:
  Installed: 0.14.2.real-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.14.2.real-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.14.2.real-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Jack Leigh (leighman)]

#162111 has more information and a number of upstream links. Please don't mark that as the dupe just because you happen to have filed this one.