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poppler package

PDF becomes unreadable when rotated

Bug #269753 reported by Christophe Dumez
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Poppler
Fix Released
Medium
poppler (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

My university is providing us with schedules in PDF format. The problem is that those PDFs should be Rotated (on the right) to be readable. Unfortunately, when using Evince rotation feature, quality becomes very bad and the text becomes unreadable.

I'm joining the PDF so that you can test. Simply rotate on the right and see the difference.

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Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n) wrote :
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Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n) wrote :
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

indeed, but xpdf display it right , this is more like a poppler issue, re assigning, thanks.

Changed in evince:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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In , Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

this report has been filed here:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/269753

"My university is providing us with schedules in PDF format. The problem is that those PDFs should be Rotated (on the right) to be readable. Unfortunately, when using Evince rotation feature, quality becomes very bad and the text becomes unreadable.

I'm joining the PDF so that you can test. Simply rotate on the right and see the difference."

pdf:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17574723/EMPLOIDUTEMPSGI45AUTOMNE2008_2685.pdf

screenshot:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17574740/evince-rotated.png

Thanks you,

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

I've sent this upstream at: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17586 ; thanks for reporting.

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Changed in poppler:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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mortoss (mortoss) wrote :

Correct me if I'm wrong - but it seems that this bug has been fixed..

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Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n) wrote :

Well, I'm using up-to-date jaunty and this is still NOT fixed.

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mortoss (mortoss) wrote :

I don't know when exactly it was fixed. But I can confirm - in my ubuntu same pdf document is now correctly displayed after rotation. Maybe it has something to do with installation adobe reader 8 (I was forced to do that)?

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Changed in poppler:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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Changed in poppler:
importance: Medium → Unknown
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Changed in poppler:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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madbiologist (me-again) wrote :

This document displays correctly on Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr", both before and after rotation.

I do not have Adobe Reader installed.

Changed in poppler (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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In , madbiologist (me-again) wrote :

Fixed at some point before poppler 0.24.5

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Changed in poppler:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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