Comment 48 for bug 669211

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Michael Gilbert (michael-s-gilbert) wrote :

> The Poppler library itself is based on Xpdf, and while it is sensible to factor out the
> resulting redundant code from the latter, I think it is clear that more development
> work is needed to achieve that goal successfully.

This conclusion is incorrect. The conversion works fine in Debian, but since Ubuntu makes changes without fully fleshing out potential side effects, things like this happen. This would not be a problem if they were using the Debian poppler version.