About 50% of all annotation content is not saved at saving a copy of the pdf

[Gerd Bavendiek]

Binary package hint: evince

Making quite a few annotations, I realized that after saving a copy, closing and opening the saved file, approx. 50 % of all annotations had a zero content.

AFAIK all annotations were in place. There color was fine (I used three different colors in that document). But the contents was gone.

I could not find any rule for this.

Maybe I should mention, that I filled all annotations using copy & paste.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 28 16:03:28 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101008.1)
ProcCmdline_: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic-pae root=UUID=bf1e4e72-fee5-4a3b-ad0c-ad51b6c8c467 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-07 (20 days ago)

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
1. Is this reproducible?
2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible.
This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Gerd Bavendiek (gerd-bavendiek)]

Hi Marcel,

thanks for responding. The bug is quite easily reproducible. Here is
what I did:

I prepared a plain file with 10 comments:

lulu:/vm> cat input.txt
Comment #1
Comment #2
Comment #3
Comment #4
Comment #5
Comment #6
Comment #7
Comment #8
Comment #9
Comment #10
lulu:/vm>

The I copied /usr/share/doc/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info-spec.pdf
in my working directory. I then opened the file with evince and did 10
annotations always using cut + paste. Finally I hovered with the mouse
over the annotations to assure they were all in place. This was the case.

I then saved the file as shared-mime-info-spec-with-10-annots.pdf, which
you will find enclosed.

As you will see, comments #1, #2, #3 and #10 are fine. All other
annotations have zero contents.

Hope this helps

Gerd

Am 28.04.2011 22:35, schrieb Marcel Stimberg:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
> 1. Is this reproducible?
> 2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible.
> This will help us to find and resolve the problem.
>
> ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
>

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[Gerd Bavendiek (gerd-bavendiek)]

Adding another 3 comments (this time not by cut+paste, but keyboard input) 2 were fine, one had zero content.

So cut+paste may have no impact.

Gerd

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

Thanks for the instructions, I was now able to reproduce the issue. I tried first with many comments on one page and this did work, but with comments on different pages I get the empty comments, you are seeing. The simplest example to reproduce the bug for me is: Put a comment on page one and another one on page two --> after saving, the comment on page two is empty.

One of the evince developers encountered the problem some time ago, but unfortunately did not follow up on it: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628378

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue should be fixed in Oneiric