908109 - Incorrect display of some PDF files by the integrated PDF viewer.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 819721

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect)

Description

[John Kitz]

Attachment: with pdf.js.JPG

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130814063812

Steps to reproduce:

Go to https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9717 or https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9718 and click on the hyperlink "FTDI Cable Schematic" in the documents section of the page.


Actual results:

The integrated PDF viewer opens a .pdf (duh), albeit garbled (see screenshot in attached file named "with pdf.js.jpg").


Expected results:

Download one of "FTDI 3.3V IO 5V Vcc Cable.pdf" or "FTDI Cable 5V.pdf" from www.sparkfun.com and open it in the Adobe Reader to see what it ought to look like.

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

gfx.canvas.azure.backends = cairo fixes the problem

Comment 2

[John Kitz]

Changed gfx.canvas.azure.backends default setting as a work-around. Thanks!!

Comment 3

[bhavana bajaj [:bajaj]]

Not tracking for Fx24 as a)this is not a recent regression b) there is a workaround.

But also needinfo'ing :bdahl here in case he thinks this should be tracked on the pdf.js side and there would be an in product fix that is coming up to resolve the issue without disabling azure.

Comment 4

[John Kitz]

(In reply to bhavana bajaj [:bajaj] from comment #3)
> Not tracking for Fx24 as a)this is not a recent regression b) there is a
> workaround.
> 
> But also needinfo'ing :bdahl here in case he thinks this should be tracked
> on the pdf.js side and there would be an in product fix that is coming up to
> resolve the issue without disabling azure.

I'm obviously not aware of the bug fixing process and criteria that Mozilla uses, but shouldn't it work with the preference set to its default value rather than with a value set by the user as a work-around?

Comment 5

[Brendan Dahl [:bdahl]]

This is a gfx issue, not pdf.js.