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cairo package

PDF printing output of evince broken with PDF file from "Der Spiegel"

Bug #1063618 reported by Till Kamppeter on 2012-10-08

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
libcairo	Fix Released	High	freedesktop-bugs #56041
cairo (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Unassigned	Ubuntu quantal-updates
Quantal	Fix Released	High	Unassigned	Ubuntu quantal-updates

Bug Description

[Impact]
Certain PDF files, especially from the German magazine "Der Spiegel", cannot get printed from evince, the standard PDF viewer in Ubuntu.

[Test Case]
1. Download the attache sample file and open it with evince
2. Choose "File"/"Print"
3. In the print dialog choose "Print to File", choose PDF as output format and create the file by clicking "Print".
4. Open the resulting file with any PDF viewer (can also be evince)
5. Text is all pushed together to the left border of the column.

After installing the proposed package and repeating the steps above the resulting PDF file displays correctly.

[Regression Potential]
Minimal, the patch is relatively small and in the upstream repository.

[Original report]
I have opened the attached PDF file from the German magazine "Der Spiegel" with evince. When printing it, the main text is messed up. To investigate further I have selected "Print to a file" in evince's print dialog, selected PDF as output format and attached the result. This file shows the same messed fonts when displaying it with gs, evince, okular, Adobe Reader, and also when printing it unfiltered on a native PDF printer (HP LaserJet P3005, HP Color LaserJet CM3530 MFP). evince's own print preview does not reveal the problem.

See original description

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Related branches

lp:ubuntu/raring/cairo

lp:ubuntu/raring-proposed/cairo

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2012-10-08:

Original PDF file from "Der Spiegel" Edit (853.7 KiB, application/pdf)

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2012-10-08:

PDF output from evince Edit (1.7 MiB, application/pdf)

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2012-10-08:

PNG ourput of Ghostscript rendering the evince output Edit (688.6 KiB, image/png)

Attached the PNG image output of Ghostscript rendering the PDF produced by evince:

gs -sDEVICE=png16m -sOutputFile=out.png der-spiegel-krieg-der-geschwister-evince.pdf

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2012-10-16:

Till, is there any chance you could report that issue upstream as well?

Changed in cairo (Ubuntu):
milestone:	ubuntu-12.10 → quantal-updates

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In freedesktop.org Bugzilla #56041, Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2012-10-16:

Created attachment 68634
der-spiegel-krieg-der-geschwister.pdf

Original bug report to Ubuntu:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/+bug/1063618

I have opened the attached PDF file from the German magazine "Der Spiegel" with evince. When printing it, the main text is messed up. To investigate further I have selected "Print to a file" in evince's print dialog, selected PDF as output format and attached the result. This file shows the same messed fonts when displaying it with gs, evince, okular, Adobe Reader, and also when printing it unfiltered on a native PDF printer (HP LaserJet P3005, HP Color LaserJet CM3530 MFP). evince's own print preview does not reveal the problem.

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In freedesktop.org Bugzilla #56041, Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2012-10-16:

Created attachment 68635
der-spiegel-krieg-der-geschwister-evince.pdf

PDF output from evince.

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In freedesktop.org Bugzilla #56041, Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2012-10-16:

Created attachment 68636
out.png

Attached the PNG image output of Ghostscript rendering the PDF produced by evince:

gs -sDEVICE=png16m -sOutputFile=out.png der-spiegel-krieg-der-geschwister-evince.pdf

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2012-10-16:

Reported upstream as

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56041

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-10-16

Changed in libcairo:
importance:	Unknown → High
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

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In freedesktop.org Bugzilla #56041, Adrian Johnson (ajohnson-redneon) wrote on 2012-10-16:

#11

I can reproduced the problem with 1.12.2 and 1.12.4. But with master the bug is fixed.

These three patches are the fix:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit/?id=cffbdf50ce0117d62d6e157369c60e4a8572fd21
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit/?id=599e78ea2ee146c74fc7ffcee32a055dabbefdda
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit/?id=0d5f63755e7ceb1bb5678fcf1f4661f3435470fb

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In freedesktop.org Bugzilla #56041, Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2012-10-16:

#12

Thank you very much. I will apply the patches to the Poppler which comes with Ubuntu Quantal.

Changed in cairo (Ubuntu Quantal):
status:	New → Triaged
assignee:	nobody → Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2012-10-16:

The bug got fixed upstream, I will apply the patches to our Poppler package soon.

Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) on 2012-10-17

Changed in cairo (Ubuntu Quantal):
status:	Triaged → In Progress

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2012-10-17:

#10

cairo_1.12.2-1ubuntu2_1.12.2-1ubuntu2.1.debdiff Edit (4.4 KiB, text/plain)

Fixed package uploaded to quantal-proposed, debdiff attached.

Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) on 2012-10-17

description:

updated

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-10-23

Changed in libcairo:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote on 2012-10-23: Please test proposed package

#13

Hello Till, or anyone else affected,

Accepted cairo into quantal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/1.12.2-1ubuntu2.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in cairo (Ubuntu Quantal):
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed
tags:	added: verification-needed

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2012-10-23:

#14

Works perfectly now. thank you. Marking as verified.

tags:	added: verification-done removed: verification-needed
Changed in cairo (Ubuntu Quantal):
assignee:	Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) → nobody
Changed in cairo (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) → nobody

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-10-29:

#15

This bug was fixed in the package cairo - 1.12.2-2ubuntu1

---------------
cairo (1.12.2-2ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian. Remaining changes:
    - patches/font-handling-fixes.patch (LP: #1063618)
    - patches/lp-#1030357.patch (LP: #1030357)
    - patches/server_side_gradients.patch

cairo (1.12.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/libcairo2-udeb.install:
    + Add the GObject library to the udeb. Needed by GTK+3 nowadays.
      Thanks to Michael Biebl for the patch.
-- Stephane Graber <email address hidden> Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:12:19 +0200

Changed in cairo (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2012-11-01: Update Released

#16

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-11-01:

#17

This bug was fixed in the package cairo - 1.12.2-1ubuntu2.1

---------------
cairo (1.12.2-1ubuntu2.1) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

* debian/patches/font-handling-fixes.patch: Fix several font handling bugs
in the PDF generator (LP: #1063618).
-- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:11:27 +0200