:: Re: [DNG] broken PDF display
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Autor: Irrwahn
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A: dng
Asunto: Re: [DNG] broken PDF display
Irrwahn wrote on 23.03.2018 20:04:
> Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote on 23.03.2018 19:30:
>> On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:14:47 -0400
>> Haines Brown <haines@???> wrote:
>>
>>> Recently and not in association with any system changes, atril and xpdf
>>> no longer displays the content of perhaps half my PDF files. They see
>>> all the pages, but they are blank. An exception is that sometimes a
>>> cover page, TOC, download notice at bottom of pages, or the graphics are
>>> displayed, but not the text. This is consistent: a failure or success
>>> repeats on subsequent tries.
>
> <snip>
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>> I have noticed the same behaviour in recent days, but while the .pdf files do not display properly in evince or pdfshuffler, they do in gv.
>
> Hi Haines, hi Ron,
>
> just a random shot in the dark, but since AFAICT atril and xpdf do not
> share the same rendering engine (going solely by package dependencies,
> I might well be wrong on that account), this could possibly be a font
> caching problem. Maybe a forced rebuild of the font cache might help:

<snip>

Nevermind! Forget what I wrote - I mistakenly tested with ASCII instead of
Jessie, sorry!

Adam Sampson was spot on: On Jessie, downgrading libpoppler46 to 0.26.5-2+deb8u1
allows to get around the bug that is perfectly reproducible with ...+deb8u3.

Best regards
Urban

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