Comparatively poor rendering in Evince

[Mathew Syriac]

Binary package hint: evince

I reported a bug in Evince earlier relating to poor rendering of certain pdfs (in comparison to xpdf and Adobe). The bug was fixed for a huge class of pdfs. (Bug #490918)

However, I recently found a pdf which Evince doesn't render as perfectly as xpdf or Adobe Reader.

I've attached a tar file containing a screenshot comparing the same pdf rendered in Evince (upper left), Adobe (right) and xpdf (bottom). The tar file also contains the particular pdf which shows this problem.

What's weird is that if I print the pdf to a pdf file from Evince, the new printed pdf renders perfectly in Evince (as good as it renders in xpdf and Adobe).

I suggest downloading the png file and viewing it in 'Normal Size' in say, Eye of Gnome, so that it looks just like it did on my screen. (Otherwise, you probably won't notice the differences. And trust me, the slightly inferior rendering can be quite irritating when reading pages of scanned handwritten notes!)

[madbiologist (me-again)]

I can confirm this issue on Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx".

Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
evince 2.30.0-0ubuntu1
poppler 0.12.4-0ubuntu4

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

poppler issue

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Still occurring on Ubuntu 10.10 alpha 2 updated to the latest versions of poppler and Evince.

Uname: Linux 2.6.35-6-generic i686
Packages:
    evince 2.30.3-1ubuntu2
    poppler 0.14.1-0ubuntu1

[Steve Sauls (stevesauls-o)]

I can confirm this bug in 12.10. My bank statements have the top half of all characters cut off. They are fine in gv, xpdf, and adobe reader.

[Steve Sauls (stevesauls-o)]

Here is a solution though it is not a fix. Switch to Kubuntu. Okular works perfectly. I absolutely MUST have these pdf's to work so I have to move to KDE.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

@Steve:
> Here is a solution though it is not a fix. Switch to Kubuntu. Okular works perfectly.

you know that KDE applications can run out of Kubuntu right? what you should recommand there is to use okular, not to change environments

[madbiologist (me-again)]

This is fixed on Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr".

evince 3.10.3-0ubuntu10
poppler 0.24.5-2ubuntu4