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

[Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan]

Sven Arvidsson <sa at whiz.se> writes:

> 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.

Hi,

I decided to move to unstable on my desktop while keeping testing on
my laptop and had a chance to test the new evince with new cairo. It
rendered those PDFs which were not rendered previously! But nautilus
still does not render the PDFs in the icons and shows blank page.

Thanks a lot.

-- 
    Ramakrishnan    <rkrishnan at debian.org>