Bug#582235: very low display quality on some documents

W. Martin Borgert debacle at debian.org
Wed May 19 10:14:01 UTC 2010


Package: evince
Version: 2.30.1-2
Severity: normal

For some documents, Evince shows a much lower display quality than Xpdf.
In fact, the documents are almost unreadable with Evince. See the example
PNGs, I've attached to this report.

Maybe this has sth. to do with anti-aliasing?
Maybe this is the same error as
https://bugs.launchpad.net/poppler/+bug/92296 ?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  evince-common           2.30.1-2         Document (postscript, pdf) viewer
ii  gconf2                  2.28.1-3         GNOME configuration  
database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme        2.30.2.1-1       GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.30.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-6         Embedded GNU C Library:  
Shared lib
ii  libcairo2               1.8.10-4         The Cairo 2D vector  
graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.24-1         simple interprocess  
messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.86-1           simple interprocess  
messaging syst
ii  libevince2              2.30.1-2         Document (postscript,  
pdf) renderi
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2.1        generic font  
configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.11-1         FreeType 2 font engine,  
shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4             2.28.1-3         GNOME configuration  
database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.24.0-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0       2.30.1-1         GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.20.1-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii  libice6                 2:1.0.6-1        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus-extension1  2.30.1-1         libraries for nautilus components
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.28.0-1         Layout and rendering of  
internatio
ii  libsm6                  2:1.1.1-1        X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-3        X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                 2.7.7.dfsg-2     GNOME XML library
ii  shared-mime-info        0.71-1           FreeDesktop.org shared  
MIME databa
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.2.24-1   simple interprocess  
messaging syst
ii  gvfs                          1.6.1-1    userspace virtual  
filesystem - ser

Versions of packages evince suggests:
ii  nautilus                      2.30.1-1   file manager and  
graphical shell f
ii  poppler-data                  0.4.2-1    Encoding data for the poppler PDF
ii  unrar                         1:3.8.5-1  Unarchiver for .rar files  
(non-fre

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