Re: okular evince xpdf rendering white (or pale) pages

[Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 02/02/2018 03:03 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 02 Feb 2018 at 10:41:54 -0300, Hernan G Solari wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> >     things where working well in "old-stable" kernel Linux 3.16.0-5-amd64 #1
> > SMP Debian 3.16.51-3+deb8u1 (2018-01-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >
> > but now (after upgrade of ??) some pdf files show white pages when viewed
> > with:
> >
> > okular, evince, xpdf or epdfview
> >
> > Except for the old ghostview, no pdf-viewer appears to work (I have tried
> > others such as epdfview)
> >
> > At first sight this is related to bugs #886733 and #886798 except that
> >
> > a. I have no problem with files or tex-script given in the bug-reports to
> > reproduce the problem
> >
> > b. "ldd /usr/bin/okular |grep poppler" returns nothing and the same can be
> > said with evince.
> >
> > xpdf is linked to libpoppler.so.46
> >
> > ¿Which package could be the problem? I cannot fill a bug report if I do not
> > identify the package.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >                          Hernan
> >
> >
> > xpdf version 3.03-17+b1
> >
> > Okular 4:4.14.2-2
> >
> > okular -v output
> >
> > Qt: 4.8.6
> > KDE Development Platform: 4.14.2
> > Okular: 0.20.2
> >
> > Evince  3.14.1-2+deb8u2
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--doug