This should have been fixed in Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail". Can you test in Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" and confirm?
** Changed in: poppler (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to poppler in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/902033 Title: Size 0 dots are large and visible Status in Poppler: Confirmed Status in “poppler” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I'm creating some PDF files with dots of 0 size. In evince, they're visible: they're pretty large and off-center. In other viewers, such as Mac Preview and Adobe Reader on Mac, the dots are not visible. This code will generate a test file in R. There is a line of 10 dots going from lower left to upper right that should be visible. There's another line of 0mm dots going from upper left to lower right, and they should not be visible. library(grid) pdf("dotsizetest.pdf", width=4, height=4) x <- y <- 1:10 pushViewport(plotViewport(c(5.1, 4.1, 4.1, 2.1))) pushViewport(dataViewport(x, y)) grid.rect() grid.points(x, y) grid.points(x, 10-y, gp=gpar(fill="black"), size=unit(0,"mm")) popViewport(2) dev.off() EXPECTED RESULT: One diagonal line of dots ACTUAL RESULT: Two crossing diagonal lines of dots. $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 11.10 Release: 11.10 $ apt-cache policy evince evince: Installed: 3.2.1-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 3.2.1-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 3.2.1-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/poppler/+bug/902033/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp