835726 - PDF preview does not properly render document

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[DutchGemini]

Attachment: PDF Rendering ThunderBird

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0; Avant TriCore) Gecko/20121202 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20121202133102

Steps to reproduce:

I received message with a PDF as an attachment. In the message body I clicked the "preview" option which opened the PDF in a new tab.


Actual results:

The PDF preview was showing strange text rendering and blocks


Expected results:

The PDF should have rendered as with Adobe Reader.

Comment 1

[DutchGemini]

Attachment: PDF Rendering Adobe Reader

Comment 2

[DutchGemini]

Attachment: PDF Rendering ThunderBird (Page 2)

Comment 3

[DutchGemini]

Attachment: PDF Rendering Adobe Reader (Page 2)

Comment 4

[DutchGemini]

Attachment: The PDF as it was received

Comment 5

[DutchGemini]

This is not the first PDF that renders incorrectly, and I have seen this happen most frequently with [scanned] PDF that contain images.

Comment 6

[DutchGemini]

Attachment: PDFRenderingThunderBird (other example)

Comment 7

[DutchGemini]

Attachment: PDF Rendering Adobe Reader (other example)

Comment 8

[DutchGemini]

Attachment: The other example PDF as it was received

Comment 9

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

PDF preview isn't a Thunderbird feature. You must be using an add-on (I'd guess Conversations).

Comment 10

[DutchGemini]

Indeed I have 'Conversations' 2.5.2. I was not aware of it, it came installed on the box at my office. I will see to forward this problem to the developer.

Putting 'Resolved-Wontfix' since it's not a TB problem.

Sorry for posting.