Comment 18 for bug 138343

The problem seems to persist in Ubuntu 8.04 (Evince Document Viewer 2.22.1.1)
I encountered it on the following file
http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c018939_ISO_IEC_10967-1_1994(E).zip

My machine has a measly 256MB RAM and it hits the swap partition hard. At that point the system becomes pretty much unusable. I use xpdf to view this file now. Of course things aren't fast there either but at least it doesn't eat up all my RAM and I can continue working.