[poppler] Rendering / Printing corruption: images in PDFs

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dimecres 26 Juliol 2006 01:24, Daniel Kasak va escriure:
> Hi all.
>
> Firstly, apologies if I've got the wrong list. The bugs I'm encountering
> occur when I use evince, but I believe that evince uses poppler, so I'm
> guessing that I'm dealing with a poppler bug ...
>
> For a while now, I've noticed that when evince opens PDFs with images,
> there is a small ( maybe 30% ) chance that images in the PDF will render
> incorrectly ... usually having small hints of the image, but with
> massive corruption. If I zoom in & out with evince, this issue fixes
> itself, so I haven't bothered too much with it.
>
> Anyway, I've just noticed that if I print from evince, I *always* get
> this massive corruption of images. Some pdfs that I'm working with are
> available at:
>
> http://entropy.homelinux.org/stuff/targets_collections.pdf
> http://entropy.homelinux.org/stuff/targets_confirmed.pdf
> http://entropy.homelinux.org/stuff/targets_stacked_percentages.pdf
>
> All these PDFs were created using PDF::ReportWriter ( my own creation,
> by the way ), which in turn uses PDF::API2. The images were created with
> JPGraph. The pdfs render and print perfectly with Acrobat. They all
> render correctly with evince ( excluding the intermittent rendering
> issue mentioned above ). However printing them *always* gives me a big
> black box where the image should be, with *very* small bits of colours
> from the original image smeared across the black stuff.
>
> Can someone please confirm whether this is a poppler bug? As I said, I'm
> not certain where exactly the bug is, so I would greatly appreciate
> someone pointing me in the right direction.

The right direction is the poppler bugzilla so we don't have the problem of 
not beign able to access the pdf because your machine is off ;-)

And yes, this is most probably a bug in poppler.

Albert

>
> Thanks :)
>
> Dan
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