Re: [evince] evince bug

["jose aliste gmail com" <jose aliste gmail com>]

Hi R.D. Russel, 

I think that in ubuntu 12.04 you have an old poppler library (I believe it is 0.18.4) and then there are some drawing issues when selecting text. Using a newer poppler version should fix the problem.

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org> wrote:

> > I have Evince 3.4.0 installed in Ubuntu 12.04 lts on a x86 single processor
> > computer. Some documents have sections which appear to change the text to the
> > background color. I have checked this using windows 2000 and Adobe reader 9.0
> > and found the "missing" sections appear correctly in that app. I have
> > also proven this by highlighting the blank areas and copying to a text editor in
> > which the hidden text appears correctly. I have attached one of the files I am
> > having "invisibility" problems with.
> I haven't found any problem in this pdf, maybe I overlook it something.Which page ?

Same here, looks fine to me.  Could you better describe "missing
sections" so that I can tell if I see them or not?

> I think that Ubuntu doesn't install the package 'poppler-data' by default. Install
> this package and check if the problem persists.

openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 w/GNOME 3.6

evince-3.6.1-1.5.x86_64
libpoppler25-0.20.0-2.9.1.x86_64
libpoppler-glib8-0.20.0-2.9.1.x86_64
poppler-tools-0.20.0-2.9.1.x86_64
poppler-data-0.4.5-5.1.1.noar

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Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>

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