evince and okular do not render eps files correctly resulting in a black background
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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libspectre (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
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Critical
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Impact
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This Ubuntu 14.04 SRU caused a regression where some .eps files have a black background that makes it almost impossible to see the original content.
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This was fixed in Ubuntu 15.04 and newer releases but was not fixed in 14.04 until now.
Test Case
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Use Ubuntu's default eps viewer (evince) to open these two test files.
Rotate test.eps 4 times to ensure that the file still displays correctly when rotated. countrate.eps should not have a black background.
Other Info
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Instead of using the fix from 15.04, 16.04 and 16.10, I chose to use the upstream's version of fix-document-
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Regression Potential
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Low. This fix is now in upstream's 0.2.8 and is in Debian and Ubuntu 17.04.
By the way, the 17.04 fix was briefly broken by a ghostscript security fix but the 16.04/16.10 fix was not affected. For more details about that, see bug 1647917.
Original Bug Report
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Several eps files, which previously rendered correctly, are not rendered correctly by evince and okular. It looks as though something is wrong with the "transparency" setting, since most of the incorrectly-
Thank you for your time.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: evince 3.10.3-0ubuntu10.1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Jul 24 16:54:06 2014
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-06-03 (51 days ago)
Related branches
tags: | added: regression-update |
Changed in libspectre (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) |
no longer affects: | evince (Ubuntu) |
no longer affects: | okular (Ubuntu) |
Changed in libspectre (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
assignee: | nobody → Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) |
description: | updated |
I have the same problem in my machine.