Debian Bug report logs - #751864
Error (184645): Illegal character <59> in hex string

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Package: evince; Maintainer for evince is Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>; Source for evince is src:evince (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>

Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:39:01 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version evince/3.4.0-3.1

Done: Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@debian.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#751864; Package evince. (Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:39:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:39:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Error (184645): Illegal character <59> in hex string
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:35:22 +0200
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Package: evince
Version: 3.4.0-3.1
Severity: important

attached are two files generated using xsane 0.998-3+b1(*) from an HP
Deskjet F2200 series scanner+printer. I used lineart + flatbed +
300dpi. The single page PDF was used with 'Save' option from XSane
while the two pages was saved using 'multipage' project.

The single page PDF document does not show any bad behavior. However
the two pages (first page duplicated) throws the following warning on
the command line:

[...]
Error (171032): Illegal character '{'
Error (171050): Unknown operator 'OM�jtRB�lI��_&'
Error (171050): Illegal character '}'
Error (171103): Unknown operator ' �e�� ��J g� '
Error (171165): Unknown operator
'ɹ�c� ҫ�S^� ��Ng��R1��b��0�E��`-K" -���=�eF?WZ ڽ'
Error (171166): Illegal character <b5> in hex string
Error (171167): Illegal character <e3> in hex string
[...]

Full log is attached as `full.log` using:

$ evince lineart_twopages.pdf  >& /tmp/full.log

xpdf or mupdf does not report any warning/errors, so I assume the PDF
is not corrupted.

Thanks

(*) yes I mean 0.998-3+b1, but for some reason PDF meta data mention
version 0.996
[lineart_singlepage.pdf (application/pdf, attachment)]
[lineart_twopages.pdf (application/pdf, attachment)]
[full.log (text/x-log, attachment)]

Reply sent to Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@debian.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:23:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:23:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at 751864-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@debian.org>
To: 751864-done@bugs.debian.org, 637623-done@bugs.debian.org, 797985-done@bugs.debian.org, 827195-done@bugs.debian.org, 833200-done@bugs.debian.org, 863078-done@bugs.debian.org, 770673-done@bugs.debian.org, 533912-done@bugs.debian.org, 587152-done@bugs.debian.org, 660561-done@bugs.debian.org, 710409-done@bugs.debian.org, 650797-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: closing old evince bugs
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:19:09 -0500
There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bích



Bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <owner@bugs.debian.org> to internal_control@bugs.debian.org. (Mon, 22 Dec 2025 07:54:17 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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