[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 14265] New: Poppler doesn't render the actual text of some PDFs

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14265

           Summary: Poppler doesn't render the actual text of some PDFs
           Product: poppler
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: x86 (IA32)
               URL: http://undergradresearch.fsu.edu/Gfx/summer_award.pdf
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: medium
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: poppler-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: keenanpepper at gmail.com


Instead of the actual document text, Poppler renders this as a single page that
says:

"To view the full contents of this document, you need a later version of the
PDF viewer. You can upgrade
to the latest version of Adobe Reader from
www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
For further support, go to www.adobe.com/support/products/acrreader.html"

I think Poppler can do better.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open http://undergradresearch.fsu.edu/Gfx/summer_award.pdf with Evince

Actual results:
Evince displays some lame error message embedded in the PDF.

Expected results:
Evince should display a "best effort" rendering of the actual text I want to
read.

Does this happen every time?
Yes.

Other information:
This seemed similar to some other reported bugs in Evince, but in all the ones
I looked at, highlighting the text made it visible. In this case, highlighting
does nothing.


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