Rendering issue: characters are printed on top of each other

Bug #942598 reported by Moritz Naumann
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evince (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Trying to print preview or print the document available at...

https://www.dab-bank.de/mlm/dabbank/formulare/pdf/hilfe-service/downloadcenter.Par.28072.File.dat/postident.pdf

...I get a printout where the general document structure is the same, but all text is rendered at the start of the line, making it unreadable. I'm attaching a print preview of this document, as generated by evince 3.2.1. While it is possible that this document is broken, other forms available from this bank at https://www.dab-bank.de/hilfe-service/formulare.html bear similar issues, so it may indicate at least a compatibility issue between Quark XPress 6.5, the PDF 1.3 format and Evince's PDF -> PS renderer.

No warning / error messages related to this issue are reported to stdout/stderr.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: evince 3.2.1-0ubuntu2.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.29-generic 3.0.20
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Feb 28 13:46:24 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-21 (130 days ago)

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Moritz Naumann (mnaumann) wrote :
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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :

In evince 3.3.90 (on Precise) the document is rendered correctly in all cases, both when opening and printing as pdf/PS.
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

I tested this on Precise with evince version 3.3.90-0ubuntu2 and was unable to recreate this bug with the pdf indicated when viewing it in Print Preview.

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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Moritz Naumann (mnaumann) wrote :

It's good to know that Precise is not affected by this bug I reported against Oneiric initially. Thanks for testing, Robert + Brian. Do bugs in Oneiric not get fixed then?

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Moritz Naumann (mnaumann) wrote :

Sorry, I seem to have misunderstood this: Brian seems to have only stated that there is a fix available for this bug in /some/ Ubuntu release, but this issue is still tagged and tracked for Oneiric.

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Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac) wrote :

Moritz, as this bug is not high-impact and may introduce several regressions, Oneiric's version will not be updated. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates for more information

no longer affects: evince (Ubuntu Oneiric)
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