Bug#453420: Does not display text in PDFs

[Simon Josefsson]

Sven Arvidsson <sa at whiz.se> writes:

> On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 17:04 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 14:17 +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> > Hi!  The text in the following PDF isn't displayed properly by evince.
>> > It works better with 'gv'.  Can you reproduce this?  I'm running
>> > up-to-date debian testing on x86.
>> > 
>> > http://josefsson.org/junk/badtext.pdf
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> The most likely culprit is cairo. The latest upstream bugfix release,
>> version 1.4.12, fixed a lot of bugs with missing text in Evince. I
>> suggest you retry when this version is available in Debian.
>> 
>> It would also help if you could try with Evince 2.20 and Poppler 0.6,
>> but you might want to wait for them to hit testing first.
>
> Hi again,
>
> This version should be in testing and unstable now. As far as I can
> tell, the document renders fine now, can you confirm?

It works fine now, I tested both the version in testing and unstable.
Thanks!

/Simon