Trying different free software PDF readers, at least some of which use
the same PDF library as evince, does not produce any crashes, but error
(or warning) messages for some:
- xpdf works without messages.
- okular works without messages (and can extract the embedded XML).
- Firefox works without messages (and can extract the embedded XML).
- Chrome works without messages.
- pdfdetach (from poppler-utils) can extract the embedded XML file.
- pdftk can extract the XML.
- mupdf works with error and warning messages:
error: Unable to read ICC workflow
warning: Attempt to read Output Intent failed
- gv works with error messages:
**** Error: ignoring annotation with scale factor of 0
Output may be incorrect.
Error: Ignoring invalid annotation, output may be incorrect.
**** Error: ignoring annotation with scale factor of 0
Output may be incorrect.
Error: Ignoring invalid annotation, output may be incorrect.
The PDF document can be transformed to be acceptable to evince: recreating the
PDF with pdftk results in a file that works without errors, even in evince.
But 'mutool clean' does not change anything.
This issue seems to be specific to evince, and affect many versions,
including recent ones.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1885313
Title:
evince crashes when opening rfc8798.pdf
Status in evince package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in evince package in Debian:
New
Bug description:
evince reproducabely crashes when opening the file rfc8798.pdf from
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8798.pdf:
$ evince --version
GNOME Document Viewer 3.28.4
$ evince rfc8798.pdf
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS"
Required information:
1) Ubuntu release info:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
Release: 18.04
2) Package version info:
$ apt-cache policy evince
evince:
Installed: 3.28.4-0ubuntu1.2
Candidate: 3.28.4-0ubuntu1.2
Version table:
*** 3.28.4-0ubuntu1.2 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64
Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3.28.2-1 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
3) Expected outcome:
I expected evince to successfully open the PDF, allowing me to read the
document.
4) Observed behavior:
The default PDF reader of Ubuntu, evince, crashed (reporting a "segmentation
fault".
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