Bug#695222: evince only shows garbage when displaying certain PDF documents

[YunQiang Su]

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Rogério Brito <rbrito at ime.usp.br> wrote:
> Package: evince
> Version: 3.4.0-3.1
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi.
>
> Evince (but not other poppler-based viewers, like the xpdf that is in
> Debian) only show garbage when displaying certain documents.
>
This file shows correctly in Ubuntu precise with evince 3.4,
While cannot work with evince 3.6 in Debian experimental.
Is it a problem of font config?

> In particular, if a LaTeX document generated by dvips happens to have T3
> fonts and that document is converted to a PDF file via ps2pdf, then only
> garbage can be seen on the screen.
>
> Minimal working example attached. To compile the document, just do:
>
>     latex test; dvips test; ps2pdf14 test.ps
>
> and try to see the resulting PDF file with evince.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Rogério Brito.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.6-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages evince depends on:
> ii  evince-common            3.4.0-3.1
> ii  gnome-icon-theme         3.4.0-2
> ii  libatk1.0-0              2.4.0-2
> ii  libc6                    2.13-37
> ii  libcairo-gobject2        1.12.2-2
> ii  libcairo2                1.12.2-2
> ii  libevdocument3-4         3.4.0-3.1
> ii  libevview3-3             3.4.0-3.1
> ii  libgail-3-0              3.4.2-4
> ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0       2.26.1-1
> ii  libglib2.0-0             2.33.12+really2.32.4-3
> ii  libgnome-keyring0        3.4.1-1
> ii  libgtk-3-0               3.4.2-4
> ii  libice6                  2:1.0.8-2
> ii  libnautilus-extension1a  3.4.2-1+build1
> ii  libpango1.0-0            1.30.0-1
> ii  libsm6                   2:1.2.1-2
> ii  libx11-6                 2:1.5.0-1
> ii  libxml2                  2.8.0+dfsg1-7
> ii  shared-mime-info         1.0-1+b1
> ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
>
> Versions of packages evince recommends:
> ii  dbus-x11  1.6.8-1
> ii  gvfs      1.12.3-2
>
> Versions of packages evince suggests:
> ii  nautilus      3.4.2-1+build1
> ii  poppler-data  0.4.6-2
> ii  unrar         1:4.1.4-1
>
> -- no debconf information
>
> --
> Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA
> http://rb.doesntexist.org/blog : Projects : https://github.com/rbrito/
> DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br
>
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YunQiang Su