Bug 368584

Summary:	The main layer in PDF not seen
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Ash <ashzech>
Component:	PDF backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	yurchor
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58231097/189.pdf
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Ash 2016-09-11 10:15:58 UTC

Archive.org generates PDFs which have layers. Some are not seen in Okular. I attach a PDF you cannot read in Okular, but it looks fine in any browser plugin or other PDF viewer. Here is a sample PDF: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58231097/189.pdf


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download the PDF: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58231097/189.pdf
2. Open it in Okular
3. Open it in anything else reading PDFs

Actual Results:  
I cannot read the text layer of the PDF in Okular

Expected Results:  
The text layer should be readable, like in any other PDF viewer.


Best wishes to KDE and Okular!

Comment 1 Yuri Chornoivan 2016-09-11 11:04:35 UTC

Hi,

This looks like a bug in poppler (library for handling PDF). At least, all poppler-based PDF-viewers (qpdfviewer, Evince) do not render it correctly. muPDF shows it as it should.

Please file a bug report against poppler here

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/

Thanks in advance for your work.

Comment 2 Ash 2016-09-11 13:26:34 UTC

Thank you; I have just posted it there —
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97768