Bug 220983
Summary: | Evince (and xpdf) bad rendering of PDF file generated by ps2pdf | ||||||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Frank Cox <theatre> | ||||
Component: | poppler | Assignee: | Marek Kašík <mkasik> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 11 | CC: | barryn, jnovy, jrb, mishu, mkasik, paul, pnewell0705, rdieter, robatino, triage | ||||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||
Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
Whiteboard: | bzcl34nup | ||||||
Fixed In Version: | poppler-0.12.1-3.fc12 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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Last Closed: | 2010-03-09 12:18:21 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Description
Frank Cox
2006-12-29 22:37:50 UTC
Created attachment 144564 [details]
Scribus document, graphic, .ps output and PDF file
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks. If you're currently running a version of Fedora Core between 1 and 6, please note that Fedora no longer maintains these releases. We strongly encourage you to upgrade to a current Fedora release. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained and closing them. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle/EOL If this bug is still open against Fedora Core 1 through 6, thirty days from now, it will be closed 'WONTFIX'. If you can reporduce this bug in the latest Fedora version, please change to the respective version. If you are unable to do this, please add a comment to this bug requesting the change. Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we are following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again. And if you'd like to join the bug triage team to help make things better, check out http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers I need to do some more thorough investigation of this bug this weekend, but I can confirm that xpdf 3.00-16.el4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4 Update 6 (with all updates applied) is affected. So, it still affects a Red Hat-family distribution that is nowhere near end-of-life. (BTW, the RHEL ES 4 U6 box in question is a print server, among other duties, and I see the same bug show up on paper if I feed the PDF files to lpr instead of viewing them with xpdf. In fact, this happens quite frequently when printing web pages from Mac OS X 10.4.11/10.5.2 clients to this print server.) The situation is still exactly as described in my initial bug report using evince-2.20.2-1.fc8 on Fedora 8/x86_64. The bug was initially reported on Fedora 6/i386 but it still exists on Fedora 8/x86_64. In other words, the bug still exists with no change since my initial report. FWIW, it looks like this bug is actually different than what I'm experiencing -- on a fully updated Debian etch system, your test case (the one attached to this bug) fails, but my own test case (a PDF generated on Mac OS X 10.4.11) is displayed properly and doesn't have the black boxes. (Both cases fail on my RHEL ES 4 U6 box.) Still a bug on F10, updated to Oct 26. evince-2.24.1-1.fc10.i386 mangles it, acroread shows it. This message is a reminder that Fedora 8 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 8. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '8'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 8's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 8 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping The bug is still present in Fedora 10. evince-2.24.1-3.fc10.x86_64 Nothing has changed since this bug was originally reported. This also looks wrong in Okular. Reassigning to poppler, which is the library which handles PDF in both Evince and Okular (and is based on xpdf, so it's not surprising they share the same bugs). This also affects rawhide: poppler-0.10.5-1.fc11.x86_64. (PDF renders OK in gv.) The bug is still present in Fedora 11. Nothing has changed since this bug was originally reported. I can reproduce this on i686 with xpdf. Please change the Platform from "x86_64 Linux" to "All Linux". In addition, the Version should probably be changed from 11 to rawhide (assuming the bug exists on i686 Rawhide in addition to x86_64, which is almost certainly the case). Doing this will improve the chances of this being worked on. Should have said "I can reproduce this on i686 F11". Unfortunately, I only have x86_64 Rawhide, so I can't test on i686 Rawhide but since it exists on x86_64 I think it's safe to assume it's also on i686. I've been searching through the FreeDesktop Bugzilla, but I can't find the upstream bug report. We're not relying on telepathy for a resolution, are we? This is apparently not an upstream issue. I have been advised that the "movie cash" pdf that is attached to this bug report looks just fine with Evince on Ubuntu Karmic using debian package number Version: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2 So whatever the problem appears to have either been solved by the Debian folks and not submitted upstream, or it's a problem specific to Red Hat/Fedora. Hi, the described problem has been fixed in upstream poppler 0.11.1 (actually, it is a feature), which implies that it works in Fedora 12. But it is a really big patch and it could pull in some regressions, so, I won't backport it into Fedora 11. I'm closing this with resolution NEXTRELEASE. Regards Marek For more info see commits e521c1efaeba3f35d10e46bca3d9650dabd2d889, 104f9286ceb5fcb5f4795bca7633029142d5f6a4 and 78a58931b4347ecb505bad5a51104382ef5f91c7 in poppler's git. (In reply to comment #17) > the described problem has been fixed in upstream poppler 0.11.1 (actually, it > is a feature), which implies that it works in Fedora 12. It does indeed! No more black box with up to date F12: poppler-0.12.4-1.fc12.x86_64 evince-2.28.2-1.fc12.x86_64 |