On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 04:18:22PM -0400, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> I still use xpdf-3.02pl2p4 on 4.4. amd64. I can not reproduce Matthew's
> claims with the pdf documents he proposed. Xpdf renders them rock
> stable. So something must have been messed up probably upstream with
> the new version.
Matthew is using the same version, but on 4.5. Changes made to the
xpdf port between 4.4 and 4.5 touch the packaging, disable the DRM
bullshit and add some security fixes.
If some of the diffs introduced the failure, it must be one of those
"security fixes". However, I had some PDFs causing crashes with an
older version of xpdf randomly, i.e. sometimes it seemed to work,
sometimes i got segfaults. The failure rate did depend on the window
size of xpdf, on actions like resizing the window, and on the window
manager used.
So you may see the bug if you just try harder ;-)
nb: i get segfaults for the second file mentioned by Matthew on
both i386 and amd64.
Ciao,
Kili
