[kde-linux] okular weirdness

[John Layt]

On Tuesday 25 August 2009 20:55:15 paul s wrote:
> for a couple of months now i have lived with some weirdness in okular...
> i have removed:
> 
> ~/.kde/share/apps/okular
> ~/.kde/share/config/okular*
> 
> uninstalled and re-installed most components and dependencies, created
> fresh accounts, yet to no avail am unable to solve this issue...
> 
> on this computer my pdf's look as so...
> 
> http://queuemail.com/snapshot8.png
> 
> and on two other identically configured computers the same pdf looks
> normal...
> 
> all are running
> Linux 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Aug 15 01:06:26 EDT 2009
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> and libraries from these repos...
> 
> repo id                   repo name                       status
> fedora                    Fedora 11 - x86_64              enabled:
> fusion                    Compiz Fusion repository        enabled:
> google                    Google - i386                   enabled:
> google64                  Google - x86_64                 enabled:
> kde                       kde                             enabled:
> kde-testing               kde-testing                     enabled:
> rpmfusion-free            RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Free enabled:
> rpmfusion-free-updates    RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Free enabled:
> rpmfusion-nonfree         RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Nonf enabled:
> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Nonf enabled:
> skype                     Skype Repository                enabled:
> updates                   Fedora 11 - x86_64 - Updates    enabled:
> 
> i am not running selinux and the only thing i can think of is the video
> card...
> 
> C0: radeon driver(snapshot)
> C1: nv driver
> C2: radeon driver
> 
> any thoughts or alternate ways of thinking would be appreciated.
> 
> cheers
> paul

Hi Paul,

It's a bit hard to tell what is wrong with the PDF without seeing it correctly 
rendered too, if you could post that.  Could you also tell us what version of 
KDE, Okular and Poppler (may be libpoppler) you have installed on the 
different systems.

Cheers!

John.