852533 - text created with pdftk not displayed in internal PDF viewer

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect)

Description

[Neil Bartholomew]

Attachment: sample_pdf_with_licensing_text.pdf

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130307023931

Steps to reproduce:

Used the pdftk stamp feature to overlay licensing information onto the bottom of each page of a PDF file. The overlaid text does not appear in FF 19 PDF viewer. 


Actual results:

The overlaid text does not appear in the Firefox 19 internal PDF viewer. This is rather crucial, because the missing text indicates proper licensing information. The text does not appear when printed from FF19 either, although it appears in every other PDF view listed below.

In the console, various warnings show up from viewer.css, but no warnings or errors appear from JavaScript. 


Expected results:

The overlaid text appears in Adobe Reader, MacOS Preview, X11 xpdf, Linux evince document viewer, Chrome PDF viewer, ghostview, ...
It appears at the bottom of every page of the attached file.  

I have looked through various existing bugs (848476 and related bug reports), and this did not seem to have quite the same conditions (e.g. no javascript warnings/errors in console), so I am creating a new bug report. Apologies if I overlooked a duplicate.

Comment 1

[Neil Bartholomew]

I find that there is a much better and more consistent example of this problem, and I am going to resubmit the bug with a better example and more accurate reporting.