It seems to be a known bug in cairo. Here is the fix. I'll also make this public. https://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit/?id=5fd0b8710f125bb33c55d75fcc8252996b403e2d
** Also affects: cairo (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: poppler (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: cairo (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Information type changed from Private Security to Public Security -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to poppler in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1728988 Title: poppler crashes on this file Status in cairo package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in poppler package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When opening the PDF file available at: https://mega.nz/#!QUlxRabb!CkbkbKanfjFCO6OaKCoFq2_yHoIWChV-ruc3PHB87E8 evince/pdftocairo are core dumping. As far as I can tell it's because the underlying lib (cairo/poppler) has a bug. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/+bug/1728988/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp