Bug 532946 - evince is unable to zoom pdf files to be readable
Summary: evince is unable to zoom pdf files to be readable
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: evince
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jonathan Blandford
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-11-04 13:19 UTC by David Timms
Modified: 2013-04-02 04:24 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-06-28 15:23:09 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
screenshot@zoom=100% (340.28 KB, image/png)
2009-11-04 13:19 UTC, David Timms
no flags Details
screenshot@zoom=400% (176.89 KB, image/png)
2009-11-04 13:19 UTC, David Timms
no flags Details
screenshot@zoom=fit page width (179.00 KB, image/png)
2009-11-04 13:20 UTC, David Timms
no flags Details

Description David Timms 2009-11-04 13:19:04 UTC
Created attachment 367470 [details]
screenshot@zoom=100%

Description of problem:
Even zoomed into 400%, evince is using only 2/3rd the width of my screen, and hence the font size is too small to clearly see/read.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evince-2.26.2-1.fc11.i586
poppler-0.10.7-3.fc11.i586

How reproducible:
Occurs with all pdf documents on my computer, or freshly downloaded from the web. xpdf is able to appropriately zoom in on any of the pdfs have, and show the text in a readable format.
Also occurs with a second freshly created test user on the same machine.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. nautilus
2. click a pdf file
  
Actual results:
choosing any of the zoom options causes the document to fill no more than 2/3rds width of the screen (even the fit width) option.

Expected results:
Let me zoom however far I need. Do not pretend to know at what zoom level I can actually read the screen.

Additional info: As far as I can remember, this has only occurred recently, yet there doesn't seem to have been updates to evince or poppler packages.
I guess it could be the result of some setting being randomly made.

I asked on Fedora list, but there were no takers on seeing the same issue.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general/354503/focus=354549

Comment 1 David Timms 2009-11-04 13:19:42 UTC
Created attachment 367471 [details]
screenshot@zoom=400%

Comment 2 David Timms 2009-11-04 13:20:16 UTC
Created attachment 367472 [details]
screenshot@zoom=fit page width

Comment 3 David Timms 2009-11-04 13:30:10 UTC
Actually, looking more closely, there has been a recent update to poppler:
[root@davidtdesktop ~]# grep -E "poppler|evince" /var/log/yum.log
Feb 08 23:41:50 Updated: poppler-0.8.7-5.fc10.i386
Feb 08 23:42:57 Updated: poppler-glib-0.8.7-5.fc10.i386
Feb 08 23:42:58 Updated: poppler-qt-0.8.7-5.fc10.i386
Feb 08 23:42:59 Updated: poppler-qt4-0.8.7-5.fc10.i386
Feb 08 23:44:38 Updated: poppler-utils-0.8.7-5.fc10.i386
May 09 13:35:07 Updated: poppler-qt-0.10.5-1.fc11.i586
Jun 22 00:17:40 Updated: evince-2.26.2-1.fc11.i586
Jun 22 00:18:21 Updated: evince-djvu-2.26.2-1.fc11.i586
Jun 22 00:18:21 Updated: evince-dvi-2.26.2-1.fc11.i586
Jul 18 10:50:40 Updated: poppler-0.10.7-2.fc11.i586
Jul 18 10:51:28 Updated: poppler-glib-0.10.7-2.fc11.i586
Jul 18 10:51:33 Updated: poppler-utils-0.10.7-2.fc11.i586
Sep 22 21:39:19 Installed: poppler-qt4-0.10.7-2.fc11.i586
Oct 29 00:15:14 Updated: poppler-0.10.7-3.fc11.i586
Oct 29 00:15:35 Updated: poppler-qt4-0.10.7-3.fc11.i586
Oct 29 00:15:35 Updated: poppler-glib-0.10.7-3.fc11.i586
Oct 29 00:15:36 Updated: poppler-utils-0.10.7-3.fc11.i586

Thought I'd try: yum downgrade poppler
which worked, except that I no longer have evince installed ;-(

Comment 4 David Timms 2009-11-04 13:31:52 UTC
* Sun Oct 25 2009 Rex Dieter <rdieter> - 0.10.7-3
- CVE-2009-3603 xpdf/popppler: SplashBitmap::SplashBitmap
  integer overflow (#526915)
- CVE-2009-3604 xpdf/poppler: Splash::drawImage integer overflow
  and missing allocation return value check(#526911)
- CVE-2009-3606 xpdf/poppler: PSOutputDev::doImageL1Sep
  integer overflow (#526877)
- CVE-2009-3607 poppler: create_surface_from_thumbnail_data
  integer overflow (#526924)
- CVE-2009-3608 xpdf/poppler: integer overflow in
  ObjectStream::ObjectStream (#526637)
- CVE-2009-3609 xpdf/poppler: ImageStream::ImageStream
  integer overflow (#526893)

Maybe these were more important to get applied, than for the app to work properly ?

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