Debian Bug report logs - #783607
libpoppler: Some contents in some pdf documents seem to be ignored

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Rogier <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: libpoppler: Some contents in some pdf documents seem to be ignored

Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 12:38:56 +0200

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Package: libpoppler46
Version: 0.26.5-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Poppler fails to correctly process the contents of some pdf files. Part of
the contents seem to be simply ignored.

An example file is attached (decompressed pdf). Using pdftotext, a euro sign
and two blank lines are displayed, whereas the file contains much more text
than that, as can be verified using other pdf tools, or by viewing the file
in a text editor.

I tested version 0.28.1-1 as well (using pdftotext), and the behavior is
the same.

The attached file is rendered incorrectly by okular, evince, xpdf and
poppler-utils (pdftotext, pdftohtml).
It is correctly rendered when using gv (1:3.7.4-1), firefox (iceweasel
31.6.0esr-1, using the built-in PDF viewer) and mupdf (1.6-1).

(I tested these packages on an up-to-date debian stretch system (as of 28 april 2015))

Kind regards,

Rogier.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libpoppler46:i386 depends on:
ii  libc6              2.19-11
ii  libfontconfig1     2.11.0-6.1
ii  libfreetype6       2.5.2-2
ii  libgcc1            1:4.9.1-16
ii  libjpeg62          1:1.3.1-3
ii  liblcms2-2         2.6-3+b1
ii  libopenjpeg5       1:1.5.2-3
ii  libpng12-0         1.2.50-2
ii  libstdc++6         4.9.1-16
ii  libtiff5           4.0.3-10+b1
ii  multiarch-support  2.19-11

Versions of packages libpoppler46:i386 recommends:
ii  poppler-data  0.4.7-1

libpoppler46:i386 suggests no packages.

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Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Andreas Goesele" <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: libpoppler: Some contents in some pdf documents seem to be ignored

Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 21:53:12 +0100

This bug is still present in libpoppler46:amd64 0.26.5-2+deb8u1 and
libpoppler46:amd64 0.26.5-2+deb8u2

Message #15 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Weghorn <[email protected]>

To: Andreas Goesele <[email protected]>, [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#783607: libpoppler: Some contents in some pdf documents seem to be ignored

Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:33:19 +0100

Hi,

the bug is still reproducible in current Debian stable (libpoppler64
0.48.0-2+deb9u1).

However, I can no longer reproduce it in current Debian unstable
(libpoppler72 0.61.1-2), so it seems to have been fixed in the meanwhile.

Regards,
  Michael

On 2018-01-09 21:53, Andreas Goesele wrote:
> This bug is still present in libpoppler46:amd64 0.26.5-2+deb8u1 and
> libpoppler46:amd64 0.26.5-2+deb8u2
> 

Message #20 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stefan Skoglund <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: evince/poppler version

Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2018 23:14:31 +0100

The fail is in my case on jessie
----
stefan@hpdc7k:~$ apt-cache  policy evince
evince:
  Installerad: 3.14.1-2+deb8u2
  Kandidat:    3.14.1-2+deb8u2
  Versionstabell:
 *** 3.14.1-2+deb8u2 0
        500 http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main amd64
Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
----
stefan@hpdc7k:~$ apt-cache policy libpoppler46
libpoppler46:
  Installerad: 0.26.5-2+deb8u3
  Kandidat:    0.26.5-2+deb8u3
  Versionstabell:
 *** 0.26.5-2+deb8u3 0
        500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main amd64
Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.26.5-2+deb8u1 0
        500 http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
stefan@hpdc7k:~$ apt-cache policy poppler-data
poppler-data:
  Installerad: 0.4.7-1
  Kandidat:    0.4.7-1
  Versionstabell:
 *** 0.4.7-1 0
        500 http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
-----

Message #25 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stefan Skoglund <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: test subjects

Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2018 23:10:54 +0100

bitsavers.org has a number of files (scans) of ibm documents:

this: 
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/370x/GA27-3051-3_Introduction_to_the_IBM_3704_and_3705_Communications_Controllers_Jul76.pdf

breaks in okular and evince but gv is able to show it.
Page 8 (in the index) is a white page.

What is visible in evince is the title paget !

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