Your message dated Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:34:08 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1127719: fixed in xpdf 3.04+git20260220-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #1127719,
regarding xpdf shows only Black page with PDF files on systems using 30-bit
color display
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Package: xpdf
Version: 3.04+git20250304-1+b1
Severity: important
Hello,
I have been using xpdf to read PDF files for decades. However, after
upgrading my monitor to 4k display with wider color-gamut, started Xorg
with 30-bit color depth (DefaultDepth 30 in '/etc/X11/xorg.conf').
'xdpyinfo' also reports:
depth of root window: 30 planes
Most of the other softwares I use displays without any problem.
However, 'xpdf FILE.pdf' only shows a Black page where the document
pages are supposed to show up.
Given that most of the present era monitors support 10-bit colour for
R/G/B, more and more people are going to be hit by this bug.
Therefore, I marked it as 'important'.
I checked for an updated version.
xpdf home-page (https://www.xpdfreader.com) shows the latest version is
4.06, which I download for Linux 64-bit, and installed as an user in my
home-directory.
It displays pdf files on my 30-bit display without any issue.
Therefore, updated xpdfreader works fine. However, all versions of
Debian is still using xpdf release 3.04.
Hence, to fix this problem, I suggest Debian xpdf package maintainer to
backport xpdf-4.06 through its source-code for Stable and Testing
version of Debian. Also, please upload the latest source-code (Open
Source) with necessary modifications in Unstable, so that it then
propagtes to Testing in due course.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500,
'oldoldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable-security'), (500, 'oldoldstable'),
(500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.12.63+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages xpdf depends on:
ii libc6 2.41-12+deb13u1
ii libgcc-s1 14.2.0-19
ii libpaper2 2.2.5-0.3+b2
ii libpoppler147 25.03.0-5+deb13u2
ii libstdc++6 14.2.0-19
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.12-1
ii libxm4 2.3.8-4
ii libxt6t64 1:1.2.1-1.2+b2
Versions of packages xpdf recommends:
pn cups-bsd <none>
ii fonts-urw-base35 20200910-8
ii poppler-data 0.4.12-1
ii poppler-utils 25.03.0-5+deb13u2
ii sensible-utils 0.0.25
xpdf suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: xpdf
Source-Version: 3.04+git20260220-1
Done: Florian Schlichting <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xpdf, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Florian Schlichting <[email protected]> (supplier of updated xpdf package)
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Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:59:00 +0100
Source: xpdf
Architecture: source
Version: 3.04+git20260220-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Florian Schlichting <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Florian Schlichting <[email protected]>
Closes: 1094431 1127719
Changes:
xpdf (3.04+git20260220-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Alessandro Astone ]
* Import new upstream version 3.04+git20260218
- Fix build against poppler 26.01
- Brush up manpages (closes: #1094431)
- Fix mask calculation when output is wider than 8 bits (closes: #1127719,
hopefully)
* d/p/acute-accent-in-manpage: Drop patch, upstream changed single quotes
into double quotes
* d/p/wrapper-options-manpage.patch: Rebase patch
.
[ Florian Schlichting ]
* Import new upstream version 3.04+git2026022
* Update copyright years
* Drop Priority: optional, now default
* Drop Rules-Requires-Root: no, now default
* Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.7.3
* d/rules: no longer necessary to hint libpaper
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