Package: evince
Version: 2.20.2-1+b1
Severity: minor
Sample 1:
This PDF:
http://www.tim-taylor.com/papers/thesis/thesis.pdf [5 MB]
renders fine with Evince. However, when I select text with
the mouse, I see gibberish text in the highlighted region,
in a different font (some kind of sans serif). The
gibberish seems to be the original text where each
character's encoding value is 2 less than it should be,
e.g. Copy shows up as Anmw, with each character
positioned where the original was, so that a lot of
characters overlap each other since the font and characters
are different. This occurs when selecting text of any font
in this document.
With most PDFs I get the expected behavior of the same text
being rendered, in the same font.
Except for ff/fi ligatures, pdftotext converts the text
portions of the PDF fine, and in Evince despite the
gibberish appearing on screen, the selected text copies to
clipboard fine (both PRIMARY upon select and CLIPBOARD upon
Ctrl+C). Acrobat Reader 8 works fine when selecting text in
this PDF (also except ligatures).
Pdfinfo output:
Title: main.dvi
Creator:dvipsk 5.58f Copyright 1986, 1994 Radical Eye Software
Producer: Acrobat Distiller Daemon 3.01 for Solaris 2.3 and later
(SPARC)
CreationDate: Wed Aug 25 10:36:44 1999
Tagged: no
Pages: 317
Encrypted: no
Page size: 595 x 842 pts (A4)
File size: 5344024 bytes
Optimized: no
PDF version:1.2
Sample 2:
I also discovered in /usr/share/X11/doc/fonts/fonts.pdf
(found in Debian package xorg-docs), that selecting works as
expected, except when highlighting Courier-font XML text.
The XML tag name and first word after tags (i.e. matching
perl regexp /(?=[])\w+?(?=[]|$)/) disappears (as if
highlighting spaces) but the rest highlights fine;
everything copies to clipboard fine. This is a modern
PDF-1.4 output by pdflatex. This might be unrelated to the
issue above; could file a separate bugreport if that's
better.
These issues occurred identically on three different Debian
machines.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (60,
'unstable'), (40, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii gconf2 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii ghostscript-x [gs-esp] 8.62.dfsg.1-2 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii gnome-icon-theme 2.22.0-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-01.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.22.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.22.0-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.7-10GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.4.14-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-31.2.1-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.74-2simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdjvulibre21 3.5.20-6 Runtime support for the DjVu image
ii libgconf2-42.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-01:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.1-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 2.22.1-1 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-02.20.1.1-1The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-1The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.22.0-2GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii libgtk2.0-02.12.9-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice62:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkpathsea4 2007.dfsg.1-2 TeX Live: path search library for
ii libnautilus-extension1 2.20.0-3 libraries for nautilus components
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.12-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.2-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpoppler-glib2 0.6.4-1 PDF rendering library (GLib-based
ii libpopt0 1.10-3lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.0-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtiff4 3.8.2-8 Tag
