#768964 libcairo2: Regression in postscript output - missing text

Package:
libcairo2
Source:
cairo
Description:
Cairo 2D vector graphics library
Submitter:
Steve Russell
Date:
2014-11-14 22:45:33 UTC
Severity:
important
#768964#5
Date:
2014-11-10 12:31:18 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

Since upgrading to cairo 1.14.0 I am seeing missing text in the postscript output
when using pdftocairo to convert pdfs to postscript. Downgrading to version
1.12.2-3 fixes the bug.

Steps to reproduce:
 $ wget http://ncirs.edu.au/news/August-Newsletter-2014.pdf
 $ pdftocairo -ps August-Newsletter-2014.pdf
 $ evince August-Newsletter-2014.*

Compare the text in the pdf and ps files on page 7 in the paragraph starting with
"12 years on". Most of the last line of this paragraph is missing.

This bug is reproducable with many other pdfs.
#768964#10
Date:
2014-11-13 06:59:56 UTC
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This has been fixed upstream:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit/?id=e4b78424ac82588bcb9b855d5b6d5872050d33f9
#768964#15
Date:
2014-11-14 22:44:39 UTC
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I rebuilt cairo 1.14.0-2.1 with this patch and can confirm the patch fixes the bug. Please consider including this patch in jessie.