[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 104565] New: UK tax form PDF has jumbled text

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104565

            Bug ID: 104565
           Summary: UK tax form PDF has jumbled text
           Product: poppler
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: Other
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: general
          Assignee: poppler-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: jason at inspiresomeone.us

Created attachment 136640
  --> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=136640&action=edit
blank United Kingdom tax return form

Forwarding from https://bugzilla.gnome.org/792393

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The UK tax return form shows jumbled text when opened in Evince 3.18.2. It
displays normally on Mac OS X with the default viewer, and I assume it does on
Windows.
The jumbling starts on page 3, with odd;y-spaced commas replacing most, but not
all, text. The page footer is replaced with random letters.
On page 6, the footer is back to normal, but all the body text is replaced with
random letters and numbers.
The file is a fillable form. The problem was first noted with a copy containing
my personal data. The attachment is a blank copy that also shows the problem.
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I've confirmed this with both pdftoppm and pdftocairo from poppler master. 
Running "pdftocairo -png 'blank return.pdf' bad" produces a page 3 with much of
the text replaced with commas.  Oddly, rendering just page 3 with "pdftocairo
-png -f 3 -l 3 'blank return.pdf' good" works correctly.

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