Bug#454483: evince: Evince fails to display certain PDF files

Sven Arvidsson sa at whiz.se
Wed Dec 5 20:31:01 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 22:09 +0530, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote:
> I have several PDF files which goes blank while trying to open with evince,
> but work fine with kpdf, xpdf and gv. The PDF files are not publicly available,
> but if someone wants to look at fixing this problem, I can send those copies
> to them.

Hi,

There are known bugs in Cairo which results in blank documents. These
are fixed in version 1.4.12.

It would be great if you could test your files again, once this version
reaches testing, preferably also using Evince 2.20 and Poppler 0.6.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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