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Created attachment 497631 [details] PDF file causing runaway memory consumption Description of problem: Evince stops responding and begins consuming memory at an alarming rate when I attempt to select the text in the attached PDF. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evince-2.32.0-4.fc14.x86_64 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open the attached Template.pdf. 2. Set view to fit width. 3. Keep selecting blocks of text. Additional info: The PDF file was created from Template.tex, also attached. To build it, use latex Template latex Template dvips -T 12cm,16cm -Ppdf Template.dvi -o Template.ps ps2pdf Template.ps
Created attachment 497632 [details] TeX source for the PDF file
I confirm. Needs 655MB of memory on my machine. After having taken this, everything is smooth again. But selection does not properly work. Acroread works fine with the file.
Updating release, it's still in evince-3.0.2-1.fc15.x86_64. This appears to be caused by very-high-resolution bitmap fonts, such as the 9600-dpi Type3 sets included in the attached PDF file. Enabling \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} causes dvips to use the Type1 Concrete fonts (assuming the cm-super packages are installed), and there's no excessive memory consumption.
Seems to be fixed meanwhile? (still using evince-2.32.0-4.fc14.x86_64)
Still present in evince-3.2.1-2.fc16.x86_64
Still present in evince-3.4.0-2.fc17.x86_64
poppler-0.18.4-3.fc17.x86_64
confirmed for poppler-0.20.2-15.fc18.x86_64 evince-3.6.1-2.fc18.x86_64
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still present in evince-3.8.3-1.fc19.x86_64, poppler-0.22.1-4.fc19.x86_64
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