Bug#507458: evince: Doesn't display ligatures and sometimes crashes

[Chris Walker]

"Christopher J. Walker" <chrisw at chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> Package: evince
> Version: 2.22.2-4~lenny1
> Severity: normal
> 
> When trying to read:
> http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmtran/84/84.pdf
> 
> Sometimes evince crashes - and asks to produce a bug report. 

And one of those bug reports has come back saying it is fixed - 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562856
which is a duplicate of http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=543942


> When it does work, it doesn't seem to display ligatures.

However in my upstream crash report, I didn't mention this issue so
please don't close the bug until it is clear that this issue is fixed.

> 
> 
> Eg on page 41, gv correctly displays "Clive Efford", whereas evince
> displays "Clive E ord".
> 
> chrisw at Daedalus:~$ evince 84.pdf
> Error (92653): Bad uncompressed block length in flate stream
> Error (92738): Bad uncompressed block length in flate stream
> Error: could not create type1 face
> some font thing failed
> Error: Invalid Font Weight
> Error: Invalid Font Weight
> Error: Invalid Font Weight
> Error: Invalid Font Weight
> Error: Invalid Font Weight
> Error: Invalid Font Weight
> 
> gv doesn't seem to have probelms displaying it. 
> 
> Chris
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages evince depends on:
> ii  gconf2                 2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
> ii  gnome-icon-theme       2.22.0-1          GNOME Desktop icon theme
> ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.20-2          Library of functions for 2D graphi
> ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
> ii  libbonobo2-0           2.22.0-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
> ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.22.0-1          The Bonobo UI library
> ii  libc6                  2.7-16            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libcairo2              1.6.4-6.1         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
> ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-4           simple interprocess messaging syst
> ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.76-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
> ii  libdjvulibre21         3.5.20-8+lenny0   Runtime support for the DjVu image
> ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.2-1         GCC support library
> ii  libgconf2-4            2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
> ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.2-1         library to load .glade files at ru
> ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.6-1          The GLib library of C routines
> ii  libgnome-keyring0      2.22.3-2          GNOME keyring services library
> ii  libgnome2-0            2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
> ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.20.1.1-1        A powerful object-oriented display
> ii  libgnomeui-0           2.20.1.1-2        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
> ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.22.0-5        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
> ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.11-4         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
> ii  libice6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
> ii  libjpeg62              6b-14             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
> ii  libkpathsea4           2007.dfsg.2-4     TeX Live: path search library for 
> ii  libnautilus-extension1 2.20.0-7          libraries for nautilus components 
> ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.13-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
> ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-3          Layout and rendering of internatio
> ii  libpoppler-glib3       0.8.7-1           PDF rendering library (GLib-based 
> ii  libpopt0               1.14-4            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
> ii  libsm6                 2:1.0.3-2         X11 Session Management library
> ii  libspectre1            0.2.0.ds-1        Library for rendering Postscript d
> ii  libstdc++6             4.3.2-1           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> ii  libtiff4               3.8.2-11          Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
> ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.5-2         X11 client-side library
> ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-5     GNOME XML library
> ii  shared-mime-info       0.30-2            FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
> ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
> 
> Versions of packages evince recommends:
> ii  dbus-x11                      1.2.1-4    simple interprocess messaging syst
> 
> Versions of packages evince suggests:
> pn  poppler-data                  <none>     (no description available)
> pn  unrar                         <none>     (no description available)
> 
> -- no debconf information