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Layus

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Registered: 2012-04-30

Posts: 12

[Solved] [Duplicate] Pdf reading errors with poppler-0.20.0-1 update

Hi all,

I was recently unable to open my pdf file with evince.
I got segmentation faults.

Trying with xpdf gave me :
""""
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-times-bold-i-normal--20-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-times-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
"""
But i was able to open the file (with wrong fonts).

The most recent (pdf-linked) update was poppler, so i reverted from poppler{,-glib,-qt}-0.20.0-1 to 0.18.4-2 and everything works seamlessly.

I wanted to know if the new package is broken, or simply my font configuration.

Thanks.

[SOLUTION] See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142198

Last edited by Layus (2012-05-30 19:13:38)

siamer

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Registered: 2012-04-29

Posts: 132

Re: [Solved] [Duplicate] Pdf reading errors with poppler-0.20.0-1 update

Hi.
I have problem with evince as well. that the error that I got:

[siamer@bridgelinux ~]$ evince

(evince:2003): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to read the recently used resources file at `/home/siamer/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but the parser failed: Otwarcie pliku "/home/siamer/.local/share/recently-used.xbel" się nie powiodło: Brak dostępu.

(evince:2003): EvinceDocument-WARNING **: /usr/lib/libpoppler-glib.so.8: undefined symbol: cairo_mesh_pattern_begin_patch

(evince:2003): EvinceDocument-WARNING **: Cannot load backend 'pdfdocument' since file '/usr/lib/evince/4/backends/libpdfdocument.so' cannot be read.
Naruszenie ochrony pamięci (core dumped)

as a super user is the same... evince is starting but can't load any pdf because evince is closing than...

any ideas how to fix it ?

[edit]
installing "cairo" package is fixing the problem ! so problem is SOLVED !

Last edited by siamer (2012-05-30 08:06:09)

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: [Solved] [Duplicate] Pdf reading errors with poppler-0.20.0-1 update

@Siamer: Cairo is listed as a dependency of poppler.

@Layus: not much help here except to say that poppler and poppler-glib 0.20 work fine here.

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siamer

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Registered: 2012-04-29

Posts: 132

Re: [Solved] [Duplicate] Pdf reading errors with poppler-0.20.0-1 update

maybe it's dependency but popple didn't install cario (didn't have it in system before), so I installed it by pacman and it's working now...

Regards,
siamer

Last edited by siamer (2012-05-30 12:37:54)

Trilby

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Re: [Solved] [Duplicate] Pdf reading errors with poppler-0.20.0-1 update

If you had/have cairo-ubuntu, or related packages, see here for the solution.

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