Bug#745412: evince-gtk: selected text is a solid black box, renders text unreadable

[Tim Wiederhake]

A-Ha!

The problem seems to be connected to the Raleigh theme (xfce default?),
as with Adwaita text selection is indeed white on blue ground. Funny
that this problem only occurs with evince, text selection in any other
program (qt5 / gtk) works fine.

Regards,
Tim

Am Tue, 19 Apr 2016 14:57:19 -0500 schrieb Jason Crain
:

> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 07:19:07PM +0200, Tim Wiederhake wrote:
> > Installed gnome-themes-standard now (and rebooted, fwiw) to no
> > effect.
> > 
> > I hesitate to install gnome-tweak-tool, since I'm using xfce and
> > gnome-tweak-tool pulls in a lot of dependencies. Is there a cli way
> > to set the theme?  
> 
> It's interesting that it happens under Xfce.  I might have to make a
> fresh install in a virtual machine to try it.  I think under Xfce you
> can change the theme through the applications menu > Settings >
> Appearance.  What style do you have selected there?  Does it work if
> you change it to Adwaita?

Bug#745412: evince-gtk: selected text is a solid black box, renders text unreadable

[Jason Crain]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 07:19:07PM +0200, Tim Wiederhake wrote:
> Installed gnome-themes-standard now (and rebooted, fwiw) to no effect.
> 
> I hesitate to install gnome-tweak-tool, since I'm using xfce and
> gnome-tweak-tool pulls in a lot of dependencies. Is there a cli way to
> set the theme?

It's interesting that it happens under Xfce.  I might have to make a
fresh install in a virtual machine to try it.  I think under Xfce you
can change the theme through the applications menu > Settings >
Appearance.  What style do you have selected there?  Does it work if you
change it to Adwaita?

Bug#745412: evince-gtk: selected text is a solid black box, renders text unreadable

[Tim Wiederhake]

Installed gnome-themes-standard now (and rebooted, fwiw) to no effect.

I hesitate to install gnome-tweak-tool, since I'm using xfce and
gnome-tweak-tool pulls in a lot of dependencies. Is there a cli way to
set the theme?

Regards,
Tim

Am Mon, 11 Apr 2016
10:32:57 -0500 schrieb Jason Crain :

> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 07:26:25AM +0200, Tim Wiederhake wrote:
> > The problem is still there. As requested, I've attached a sample pdf
> > file and below you will find information about installed evince and
> > poppler versions.  
> 
> I'm still not able to reproduce this.  Whenever I select text in
> evince I get the normal blue highlite and white text like any other
> gnome application.  Most of what I see on the google about black
> highliting mentions the gnome theme.  So make sure you have
> gnome-themes-standard installed and use gnome-tweak-tool to set the
> theme to Adwaita.

Bug#745412: evince-gtk: selected text is a solid black box, renders text unreadable

[Jason Crain]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 07:26:25AM +0200, Tim Wiederhake wrote:
> The problem is still there. As requested, I've attached a sample pdf
> file and below you will find information about installed evince and
> poppler versions.

I'm still not able to reproduce this.  Whenever I select text in evince
I get the normal blue highlite and white text like any other gnome
application.  Most of what I see on the google about black highliting
mentions the gnome theme.  So make sure you have gnome-themes-standard
installed and use gnome-tweak-tool to set the theme to Adwaita.

Bug#745412: evince-gtk: selected text is a solid black box, renders text unreadable

[Tim Wiederhake]

control: tags -1 - moreinfo

The problem is still there. As requested, I've attached a sample pdf
file and below you will find information about installed evince and
poppler versions.

- Tim

$ aptitude versions "~i evince"
Package evince:   
i
3.20.0-1
testing  500 

Package evince-common:
i A
3.20.0-1
testing  500

$ aptitude versions "~i poppler"
Package libpoppler-cpp0v5: 
i A
0.38.0-2
testing  500 

Package libpoppler-glib8:
i A
0.38.0-2
testing  500 

Package libpoppler-qt4-4:
i A
0.38.0-2
testing  500 

Package libpoppler57:
i A
0.38.0-2
testing  500 

Package poppler-data:
i A
0.4.7-7
testing  500 

Package poppler-utils:
i A
0.38.0-2
testing  500 

Package python-poppler:
i A
0.12.1-8.1
testing  500 



Am Sun, 10 Apr 2016 19:37:20 -0500
schrieb Jason Crain :

> control: tags -1 moreinfo
> 
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 02:52:39PM +0200, twied wrote:
> > when selecting text in evince,
> > IT SHOULD: highlight the selected text, i. e. by inverting the text
> > and background colors.
> > IT DOES: appear just as black box.  
> 
> Are these PDF documents?  This looks like a problem that was fixed in
> poppler 0.21.3 (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54526).
> Please confirm if you still have this problem.  If you do, please
> provide your libpoppler version and a PDF so we can reproduce it.



test.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Hello world!
\end{document}

Bug#745412: evince-gtk: selected text is a solid black box, renders text unreadable

[Jason Crain]

control: tags -1 moreinfo

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 02:52:39PM +0200, twied wrote:
> when selecting text in evince,
> IT SHOULD: highlight the selected text, i. e. by inverting the text and
> background colors.
> IT DOES: appear just as black box.

Are these PDF documents?  This looks like a problem that was fixed in
poppler 0.21.3 (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54526).
Please confirm if you still have this problem.  If you do, please
provide your libpoppler version and a PDF so we can reproduce it.

Bug#745412: evince-gtk: selected text is a solid black box, renders text unreadable

[Pedro Beja]

Hey Tim,

thanks for reporting.

I can't reproduce this issue here with 3.14.1-1.

Could you please still reproduce this issue with newer evince version
like 3.14.1-1 ?
If so, could you also provide a pdf file example ?

thanks
regards
althaser