Public bug reported:
Poppler (and therefore Evince) place the anchors of hyperlinks
incorrectly with some PDFs. I've attached a sample PDF which displays
the problem. The link is the work "link" in the second sentence, but
Evince misplaces the anchor to around the word "[This]". The same
problem occurs when attempting to get hyperlink locations with the
Poppler library directly. Xpdf and Adobe Acrobat Reader both place the
hyperlink correctly. Evince behaves identically on both 8.04 and 9.10
systems.
I've only seen this problem in some PDFs created by LaTeX, so I've also
attached the LaTeX file I used to make the test case. The necessary components
are:
1) Setting the PDF crop box, with the bottom left corner not being (0, 0).
2) Using landscape mode.
3) Compiling through DVI (that is, latex > dvips > ps2pdf or latex > dvipdf).
This specificity might suggest a bug in LaTeX, but the fact that both Xpdf and
Acrobat place the anchor correctly suggests to me that LaTeX is doing something
unusual, but legal.
The PDF file created directly with pdflatex, also attached, has the
anchor correctly placed by Poppler. Perhaps some PDF wizard can compare
the two to find out what's different. (I do note that the two files are
cropped differently by Evince. I don't know if that's a clue or not.)
** Affects: poppler (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Incorrect placement of hyperlink anchors in certain PDFs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/544743
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