Bug 178461

Summary: Tiscali Bill (nl) prints blank page
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: Martin van Es <bugs>
Component: generalAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Martin van Es 2008-12-22 13:32:15 UTC 
Version:           0.7.80 (using 4.1.85 (KDE 4.1.85 (KDE 4.2 Beta2)), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.27

I receive a digital bill from my internet provider each month that is not printable in Okular, nor in xpdf. They both produce a blank page as output. Printing to file (ps) and sending the file to lpr results in a blank page, "Print preview" in Okulare shows a blank page.

If I convert the pdf to ps (using pdf2ps) however, the resulting ps file is valid and can be printed.

I don't want to post the Bill publicly on kde-bugs, but if there's any developer interested in the file I want to send it directly via mail.

Also, if this can't be solved it's not a big problem because I can print the page via pdf2ps, but It would be nice to have a solid case to mail Tiscali they send corrupted pdf's. Telling them "Your pdf won't print on Linux" is not going to get far I fear.
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2008-12-23 00:17:57 UTC 
Please send it to me, i'll put it in my do not share directory.
Comment 2 Albert Astals Cid 2008-12-24 17:33:18 UTC 
You can tell them they embed a font in the PDF whose Length2 is set to 0 which is obviously wrong.

I'm working on a patch to try to work with that but i can't promise anything.