evince shows incomplete pages for certain pdf files

[Ulf Mehlig]

Binary package hint: evince

evince fails to display pdf files from www.botanicus.org correctly; only a part of the page (upper left corner) is shown.

example:

   http://www.botanicus.org/botanicus3/b12002070/31753002771522/31753002771522.pdf

Adobe Acrobat Reader is able to display these pages correctly.

amd64

Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

evince:
  Installed: 2.22.2-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.22.2-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.22.1.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/bugs/252552

"evince fails to display pdf files from www.botanicus.org correctly; only a part of the page (upper left corner) is shown.

example:

   http://www.botanicus.org/botanicus3/b12002070/31753002771522/31753002771522.pdf

Adobe Acrobat Reader is able to display these pages correctly."

evince using poppler 0.8.4 cairo doesn't render it correctly

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16906

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Still occurring with evince using poppler 0.12.0

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Still occurring in Karmic 9.10 with all the latest updates.

Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686
Package versions:
evince 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2
poppler 0.12.0-0ubuntu2.1

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Still occurring on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx alpha 2.

Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic i686
Packages:
evince 2.29.5-0ubuntu1
poppler 0.12.2-2.1ubuntu3

[Carlos Garcia Campos (carlosgc)]

*** Bug 20514 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Carlos Garcia Campos (carlosgc)]

*** Bug 26164 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Carlos Garcia Campos (carlosgc)]

Fixed in git master and poppler-0.12 branch.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug has been fixed upstream now

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package poppler - 0.12.3-0ubuntu1

---------------
poppler (0.12.3-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - [Cairo backend] Do not crash on malformed files. Bug #24575 (lp: #430887)
    - [Cairo backend] Fix crash in some documents. GNOME bug #603934 (
      lp: #436197)
  * debian/patches/01_git_change_fix_matrix_use.patch:
    - git change to fix a wrong matrix use leading to rendering issues
      (lp: #252552)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:17:57 +0100

[madbiologist (me-again)]

I've just updated Lucid Lynx 10.04 alpha 2 to poppler - 0.12.3-0ubuntu1. I can confirm that the attached PDF file now displays correctly.