Bug#488750: evince: Crashes when PDF file is changed while being viewed

Loïc Minier lool at dooz.org
Tue Jul 1 14:06:14 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jun 30, 2008, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> If, while viewing a PDF file, the PDF file is changed on disk, evince
> gives lots of messages about missing font tags and fails to display
> anything.  Asking for the file to be re-opened often results in a
> crash.  More helpful behaviour when editing documents would be to
> behave like (eg) xdvi: notice that the file has changed and attempt to
> re-open it; but in any case it shouldn't crash.
> ii  libpoppler-glib3       0.8.3-1           PDF rendering library (GLib-based 

 Could you please update all your poppler packages to 0.8.4 and test
 again?

-- 
Loïc Minier






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