The "vanilla" libspectre-0.2.7 doesn't show this behavior. The patch we are takling about has been introduced in the master branch of the git repository last June, but was reverted in September: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libspectre
Some time between those two dates, somebody added this patch to the debian/ubuntu version of libspectre though, and it has not yet been reverted here. While this gets fixed, you can get the source of the debian package, download the vanilla libspectre, and build yourself a new .deb package without this faulty patch (make sure that the source repositories are enabled). I give below a script that should do this for you. There may be a better way, but at least this one works. # Install the tools needed to build debian packages sudo apt-get install devscripts # Install the dependencies of libspectre sudo apt-get build-dep libspectre1 # Make yourself a temporary directory mkdir ~/tmp/ cd ~/tmp/ # Download the vanilla libspectre-0.2.7 wget http://libspectre.freedesktop.org/releases/libspectre-0.2.7.tar.gz # Download the debian source code sudo apt-get source libspectre1 # Create a new directory with the correct code cd libspectre-0.2.7 uupdate ../libspectre-0.2.7.tar.gz -v 0.2.7-vanilla cd ../libspectre-0.2.7-vanilla # Remove the debian patch rm debian/patches/* # Build the package dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -nc # Note: fore some reason, this fails to build libspectre-dev, but we don't care # Install it cd ../ sudo dpkg -i libspectre1_0.2.7-vanilla*.deb -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1348384 Title: evince and okular do not render eps files correctly resulting in a black background Status in evince package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in libspectre package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in okular package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Several eps files, which previously rendered correctly, are not rendered correctly by evince and okular. It looks as though something is wrong with the "transparency" setting, since most of the incorrectly-rendered files have a black background, but the figure can somewhat be made out on top of hte black background. The PDF files I have tested are NOT affected. EPS files that were previously viewable correctly ARE affected. Thank you for your time. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: evince 3.10.3-0ubuntu10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu Jul 24 16:54:06 2014 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: evince UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-06-03 (51 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1348384/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
