[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 25755] New: Sample PDF works in pre-0.11.2 poppler, breaks in post-0.11.1

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25755

           Summary: Sample PDF works in pre-0.11.2 poppler, breaks in post-
                    0.11.1
           Product: poppler
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: x86 (IA32)
               URL: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/4
                    97175
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: glib frontend
        AssignedTo: poppler-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: dsheil at vartmp.com


Created an attachment (id=32239)
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Sample PDF where newer poppler versions can not see some text

Manuel Mourão reported in Ubuntu's bug tracker that a PDF he had was not
working as some of the text in the PDF was not being displayed.  I have
attached that PDF to this bug report.  He says he can read the PDF with xpdf
but not Evince.  Evince is dependent on poppler, xpdf is not.

I did a number of tests, and various versions of evince linked against 0.11.1
and earlier poppler libraries worked in being able to see the specified text in
this document.  Poppler 0.11.2 broke evince's ability to read the text.

I also used the epdfview program to look at the PDF, with it using the
pre-0.11.2 and post-0.11.1 poppler libraries.  For the former it could see the
specified text, for the latter it could not.

It looks like a code change in 0.11.2 broke poppler's ability to see this text,
since poppler can see the text in 0.11.1.

By post-0.11.1 poppler being broken in this regard I mean every release from
0.11.2 to 0.12.2.  It is also broken in a compile I did of today's git branch (
git://git.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/poppler ).

The original reporter said he could view the missing text in Xpdf, and I can as
well.  The changes in 0.11.2 removed poppler's ability to see the text.


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