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evince package

  1. Trusty (14.04)
  2. Bug #1242678
  3. Comment #25

Comment 25 for bug 1242678

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In , Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The issue reported there seems to be also what makes evince fails to render some eps files on e.g recent Ubuntu versions

That has been reported on
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710957
https://bugs.launchpad.net/libspectre/+bug/1242678
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694979

The ghostscript bugs has details

"...
Basically, this isn't a bug. If you want to rotate an EPS you absolutely should NOT be doing so by using /Orientation, which is a media selection parameter. You should instead use '90 rotate' or similar to set up the CTM before you render the EPS."

@Marek: I tried your patch on some of the files from the Ubuntu bug, e.g https://bugs.launchpad.net/libspectre/+bug/1242678/+attachment/3886169/+files/test.eps ... it fixes the "nothing is displayed" but the orientation seems wrong (rotated from 90° compared to gs and 180° compared to what portrait should be (e.g axis/labels are wrong)). Not sure if that's a bug in the documents or in the change though