Thank you for your bug report. I can confirm this also for epdfview which suggest it is a problem in the poppler library and not in evince.
I have reported the bug to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43676 ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #43676 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43676 ** Package changed: evince (Ubuntu) => poppler (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: poppler (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Also affects: poppler via https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43676 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- 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/902033 Title: Size 0 dots are large and visible Status in Poppler: Unknown Status in “poppler” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I'm creating some PDF files with dots of 0 size. In evince, they're visible: they're pretty large and off-center. In other viewers, such as Mac Preview and Adobe Reader on Mac, the dots are not visible. This code will generate a test file in R. There is a line of 10 dots going from lower left to upper right that should be visible. There's another line of 0mm dots going from upper left to lower right, and they should not be visible. library(grid) pdf("dotsizetest.pdf", width=4, height=4) x <- y <- 1:10 pushViewport(plotViewport(c(5.1, 4.1, 4.1, 2.1))) pushViewport(dataViewport(x, y)) grid.rect() grid.points(x, y) grid.points(x, 10-y, gp=gpar(fill="black"), size=unit(0,"mm")) popViewport(2) dev.off() EXPECTED RESULT: One diagonal line of dots ACTUAL RESULT: Two crossing diagonal lines of dots. $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 11.10 Release: 11.10 $ apt-cache policy evince evince: Installed: 3.2.1-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 3.2.1-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 3.2.1-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/poppler/+bug/902033/+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
