Ubuntu
poppler package

Characters of selected text are vertically flipped

Bug #1761567 reported by Degrange Thomas on 2018-04-05

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	poppler (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

In the attached PDF, I expect that selected text remains readable, but here selected characters become vertically flipped.

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$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 17.10
Release: 17.10

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$ apt-cache policy evince
evince:
  Installed: 3.26.0-1
  Candidate: 3.26.0-1
  Version table:
*** 3.26.0-1 500
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: evince 3.26.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-38.43-generic 4.13.16
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-38-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Apr 5 20:58:15 2018
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-02-19 (44 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20180105.1)
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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CVE References

2017-18267

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Degrange Thomas (tdegrange) wrote on 2018-04-05:

#1

Selection_bug.pdf Edit (122.7 KiB, application/pdf)
Dependencies.txt Edit (7.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (141.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
KernLog.txt Edit (2.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (290 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (68.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RelatedPackageVersions.txt Edit (183 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Degrange Thomas (tdegrange) wrote on 2018-04-16:

#2

Selection_bug.png Edit (164.7 KiB, image/png)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2018-04-16:

#3

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

affects:	evince (Ubuntu) → poppler (Ubuntu)
Changed in poppler (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Degrange Thomas (tdegrange) wrote on 2018-04-16:

#4

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760876 seems very similar, except that the reversed text is just perfectly vertically mirrored, not also garbled like mine.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2018-08-22

Changed in poppler (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2018-09-04:

#5

This bug was fixed in the package poppler - 0.68.0-0ubuntu1

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poppler (0.68.0-0ubuntu1) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version
    - TextPage: Add horizontal scaling to font matrix (lp: #1761567)
  * Updated for the soname change libpoppler73 -> 79
  * debian/patches/proper-init.patch:
    - removed, the issue has been fixed upstream in another way since
  * debian/patches/01-new-gtk-doc.patch,
    debian/patches/cairo-good-filter.patch,
    debian/patches/CVE-2017-18267.patch:
    - removed, the fixes are in the new version
  * debian/patches/series:
    - added a comment about the remaining patches

-- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 22 Aug 2018 11:30:47 +0200

Changed in poppler (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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