Bug 220983 - Evince (and xpdf) bad rendering of PDF file generated by ps2pdf
Summary: Evince (and xpdf) bad rendering of PDF file generated by ps2pdf
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: poppler
Version: 11
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Marek Kašík
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: bzcl34nup
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-12-29 22:37 UTC by Frank Cox
Modified: 2010-03-09 16:35 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

Fixed In Version: poppler-0.12.1-3.fc12
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-03-09 12:18:21 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Scribus document, graphic, .ps output and PDF file (24.21 KB, application/x-bzip2)
2006-12-29 22:37 UTC, Frank Cox
no flags Details

Description Frank Cox 2006-12-29 22:37:50 UTC
Description of problem:
The attached PDF file was generated from Postscript output from Scribus and run
through ps2pdf.  A PDF of this document generated directly from Scribus can be
viewed with xpdf and evince.  A PDF of this document generated by ps2pdf from ps
output from Scribus can be viewed by Acrobat Reader on Linux, but the graphic is
a black box when viewed with xpdf and evince.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Every time.


Steps to Reproduce:
1."print-to-file" from Scribus 1.3.3.6
2. ps2pdf nameoffile.ps
3.evince nameoffile.pdf
  
Actual results:
The graphic is a black box


Expected results:
The graphic should say "Movie Cash"


Additional info:

Comment 1 Frank Cox 2006-12-29 22:37:51 UTC
Created attachment 144564 [details]
Scribus document, graphic, .ps output and PDF file

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 05:24:10 UTC
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Comment 3 Barry K. Nathan 2008-04-20 03:24:35 UTC
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.)

Comment 4 Frank Cox 2008-04-20 04:12:41 UTC
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.

Comment 5 Barry K. Nathan 2008-04-20 07:16:58 UTC
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.)

Comment 6 sean 2008-10-26 15:06:27 UTC
Still a bug on F10, updated to Oct 26.

evince-2.24.1-1.fc10.i386

mangles it, acroread shows it.

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Comment 8 Frank Cox 2008-11-28 04:52:49 UTC
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.

Comment 9 Kevin Kofler 2009-03-23 18:46:01 UTC
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).

Comment 10 James 2009-04-23 08:59:30 UTC
This also affects rawhide: poppler-0.10.5-1.fc11.x86_64. (PDF renders OK in gv.)

Comment 11 Frank Cox 2009-06-11 05:31:42 UTC
The bug is still present in Fedora 11.

Nothing has changed since this bug was originally reported.

Comment 12 Andre Robatino 2009-09-14 15:21:06 UTC
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.

Comment 13 Andre Robatino 2009-09-14 15:26:21 UTC
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.

Comment 15 Paul Flo Williams 2009-11-05 21:10:23 UTC
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?

Comment 16 Frank Cox 2010-03-02 20:19:10 UTC
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.

Comment 17 Marek Kašík 2010-03-09 12:18:21 UTC
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.

Comment 18 Paul Flo Williams 2010-03-09 16:35:40 UTC
(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


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