Evince does not show content of inserted text comments

Bug #1808397 reported by Karl Kastner
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Poppler
New
Unknown
poppler (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Evince does not display the content of text inserted by acrobat reader annotations. It does show the blue triangles and opens a box when one clicks on a triangle, but the inserted text is not displayed in the box. In contrast, the content of yellow sticky notes is properly displayed. Okular properly displays the content of the inserted text, so it is not an inaccessible proprietary feature. Example file is attached.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: evince 3.30.1-1ubuntu1.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-12.13-generic 4.18.17
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Dec 11 16:05:32 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-05 (1132 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20150805)
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-10-18 (53 days ago)

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Karl Kastner (kastner-karl) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Opening the example it displays that warning
Unimplemented annotation: POPPLER_ANNOT_CARET. It is a known issue and it might be implemented in the future.

Similar to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/issues/171 or https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/517

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Note that firefox seems to have the same issue, chromium does display the text though

affects: evince (Ubuntu) → poppler (Ubuntu)
Changed in poppler (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Changed in poppler:
status: Unknown → New
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