Bug#488750: evince: Crashes when PDF file is changed while being viewed

[Dylan Thurston]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 04:06:14PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> > If, while viewing a PDF file, the PDF file is changed on disk, evince
> > gives lots of messages about missing font tags and fails to display
> > anything.  Asking for the file to be re-opened often results in a
> > crash.  More helpful behaviour when editing documents would be to
> > behave like (eg) xdvi: notice that the file has changed and attempt to
> > re-open it; but in any case it shouldn't crash.
> > ii  libpoppler-glib3       0.8.3-1           PDF rendering library (GLib-based 
> 
>  Could you please update all your poppler packages to 0.8.4 and test
>  again?

I have done this, and it no longer crashes, although it still displays
a blank screen rather than re-opening the file.  Feel free to
downgrade the bug to wishlist, since it is no longer crashing.

Best,
	Dylan Thurston