Bug#489874: evince: Unknown compression method in flate stream

Paul Menzel pm.debian at googlemail.com
Wed Aug 13 09:32:41 UTC 2008


Subject: evince: Unknown compression method in flate stream
Followup-For: Bug #489874
Package: evince
Version: 2.22.2-2

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Dear DDs,


I am posting a follow up, since I get the same debug message

        Unknown compression method in flate stream

but I do not get

        Bad FCHECK in flate stream

but instead

        Error: failed to load truetype font
        
        some font thing failed

To reproduce.

1. wget http://lsb-berlin.net/fileadmin/pdfs/vereinsberatung/gem1.pdf
2. evince gem1.pdf
3. Fill out some values in the form.
4. File → Save Copy as → a.pdf
5. evince a.pdf &
[1] 10062
Error (39075): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (28487): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (49914): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (19502): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (175983): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error: failed to load truetype font

some font thing failed
Error (39075): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (28487): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (49914): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (19502): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (39075): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (28487): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (49914): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (19502): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (28487): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (49914): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (39075): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (120484): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (86057): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (137066): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (97223): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (62975): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (28487): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (49914): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (39075): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (120484): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (86057): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (137066): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (97223): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (62975): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (28487): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (49914): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (39075): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (120484): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (86057): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (137066): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (97223): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (62975): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (28487): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (49914): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (136511): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (39075): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (108918): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (137426): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (97223): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (120484): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (68670): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (28487): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (49914): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (136511): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (39075): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (108918): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (137426): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (97223): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (120484): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (68670): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (28487): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (49914): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (136511): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (39075): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (108918): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (137426): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (97223): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (120484): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (68670): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (39075): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (28487): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (49914): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (19502): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error (175983): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error: failed to load truetype font

some font thing failed

You can see the text and checkboxes you filled in, but you cannot see
the original document.

Using ghostscript the first page is shortly shown and then I get

$ ghostscript a.pdf &
[1] 10132
GPL Ghostscript 8.62 (2008-02-29)
Copyright (C) 2008 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Processing pages 1 through 4.
Page 1
   **** Unknown operator: '����
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   **** Unknown operator: 'wߤz�'F��l�'�P�3:����Ew�5n'
   **** Unknown operator: 'h�X����=��c~i?Q'
   **** Unknown operator: '7L�
\_������L'
   **** Unknown operator: '
���džйvscf
�2��
9

   **** Unknown operator: ''
   **** Unknown operator: '�R�
   **** Unknown operator: ''
   **** Unknown operator: '�h�R���I�eJZb'
   **** Error reading a content stream. The page may be incomplete.
   **** Unknown operator: '��'������w��t�'
   **** Unknown operator: '�'
   **** Unknown operator: '��Sd�'
   **** Error reading a content stream. The page may be incomplete.
   **** Unknown operator: '�_'
   **** Unknown operator: '�|��t�C�'
   **** Error reading a content stream. The page may be incomplete.
   **** Unknown operator: '��մ�'
   **** Error reading a content stream. The page may be incomplete.
   **** Unknown operator: '��:�4'
   **** Error reading a content stream. The page may be incomplete.
   **** Unknown operator: '�'
   **** Unknown operator: '��YråŠÌ5óîÿ'
   **** U┼┐┼⎺┬┼ ⎺⎻␊⎼▒├⎺⎼: 'ÚG┌æ7┼'
   **** U┼┐┼⎺┬┼ ⎺⎻␊⎼▒├⎺⎼: '@Šæˆ´›·Ð«öéÞí„ŸË'
   **** E⎼⎼⎺⎼ ⎼␊▒␍␋┼± ▒ ␌⎺┼├␊┼├ ⎽├⎼␊▒└. T␤␊ ⎻▒±␊ └▒≤ ␉␊ ␋┼␌⎺└⎻┌␊├␊.
   **** U┼┐┼⎺┬┼ ⎺⎻␊⎼▒├⎺⎼: 'Çò°
žßËê$_M‘®°Ï␋’Ì—NJˆ┐'
   **** U┼┐┼⎺┬┼ ⎺⎻␊⎼▒├⎺⎼: '=Z┴ÈR1⎽ÿûQ¼˜ãÒ—î—ù'
   **** E⎼⎼⎺⎼ ⎼␊▒␍␋┼± ▒ ␌⎺┼├␊┼├ ⎽├⎼␊▒└. T␤␊ ⎻▒±␊ └▒≤ ␉␊ ␋┼␌⎺└⎻┌␊├␊.
   **** U┼┐┼⎺┬┼ ⎺⎻␊⎼▒├⎺⎼: 'Š�����H'
   **** Error reading a content stream. The page may be incomplete.
   **** Unknown operator: 'x����U'
   **** Unknown operator: '�@;
   **** Warning: Invalid hex following '#' name escape, using literal '#' in name.
   **** Unknown operator: ''
   **** Unknown operator: 'j
��Y&���9.�c�'
   **** Unknown operator: '|fvc+4
   **** Error reading a content stream. The page may be incomplete.
Error: /typecheck in --.execform1--
Operand stack:
   --nostringval--   --dict:13/13(L)--   0.999999   --dict:13/13(L)--   2
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1905   1   3   %oparray_pop   1904   1   3   %oparray_pop   1888   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   1   4   --nostringval--   %for_pos_int_continue   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   %array_continue   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   1853   6   11   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1852   6   11   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   (gstatetype)   --dict:0/0(L)--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   %loop_continue   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1151/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:1/20(G)--   --dict:97/200(L)--   --dict:97/200(L)--   --dict:108/127(ro)(G)--   --dict:275/300(ro)(G)--   --dict:23/25(L)--   --dict:4/6(L)--   --dict:25/40(L)--   --dict:20/23(L)--   --dict:2/5(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

[1]+  Exit 1                  ghostscript a.pdf


Is evince not saving the original fonts correctly?

Please advice me what to do next. Thanks you very much.


Bests,

Paul


PS: Should I file a separate bug for ghostscript? But maybe we should
wait until this is resolved under evince, because maybe evince is
producing incorrect pdf.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  gconf2                 2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme       2.22.0-1          GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.20-2          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.22.0-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.22.0-1          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.7-13            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.6.4-6           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-3           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.76-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdjvulibre21         3.5.20-10         Runtime support for the DjVu image
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-1           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.7-1           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.1-8         GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4            2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.2-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.5-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0      2.22.3-1          GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0            2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.20.1.1-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.22.0-4        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.11-3         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62              6b-14             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libkpathsea4           2007.dfsg.2-3     TeX Live: path search library for 
ii  libnautilus-extension1 2.20.0-6          libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.13-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-1          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpixman-1-0          0.10.0-2          pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.27-1          PNG library - runtime
ii  libpoppler-glib3       0.8.5-1           PDF rendering library (GLib-based 
ii  libpopt0               1.14-4            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                 2:1.0.3-2         X11 Session Management library
ii  libspectre1            0.2.0.ds-1        Library for rendering Postscript d
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.1-8           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtiff4               3.8.2-10          Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.4-2         X11 client-side library
ii  libxcb-render-util0    0.2.1+git1-1      utility libraries for X C Binding 
ii  libxcb-render0         1.1-1.1           X C Binding, render extension
ii  libxcb1                1.1-1.1           X C Binding
ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-2     GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.4-2         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.2.1-3    simple interprocess messaging syst

Versions of packages evince suggests:
pn  unrar                         <none>     (no description available)

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