Bug#902427: evince: Characters such as 'i', 'l', '-' missing for some text parts when printing LaTeX-generated pdf

[Jason Crain]

Control: reassign -1 libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1
Control: forcemerge 800893 -1
Control: tags -1 + upstream fixed-upstream
Control: forwarded -1 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94615
Control: affects -1 evince
Control: fixed -1 1.15.8-1

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 04:06:31PM +0200, Matthias May wrote:
> when printing some pdf documents, some characters, that are correctly displayed
> on the screen, are missing in the printout. Reproducible for some LaTeX-
> generated documents with utf8 input encoding. It mostly affects the characters
> 'i', 'l', and '-' and not all occurences in the text. Printing the very same
> document works in Okular and also in evince 3.28 (on Ubuntu).
> 
> I am attaching an example document. In the top right, it prints 'He m' instead
> of 'Heim', 'Ema  :' instead of 'Email:', '0000 0000 12345' instead of
> '0000-0000-12345' etc.

This issue is in cairo, a graphic library used by evince and poppler.
It's fixed by commit
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit/?id=190678f6444ad879847d603c3c9eaf8e9ab6887a
in cairo version 1.15.4.