I am reporting a reproducible Poppler regression affecting Manjaro package versions:
- poppler 26.04.0-1
- poppler-glib 26.04.0-1
- poppler-qt6 26.04.0-1
Upstream Poppler report:
Summary:
A PDF exported from Google Slides displays as blank pages in Evince and Okular with Poppler 26.04.0-1.
The same PDF displays correctly after downgrading poppler, poppler-glib and poppler-qt6 to 26.03.0-1.
Minimal reproducer:
- Create a Google Slides presentation with two slides:
- Slide 1: “test 1”
- Slide 2: “test 2”
- Export using:
Google Slides → File → Download → PDF Document (.pdf) - Open the PDF with:
evince test-slides.pdf
okular test-slides.pdf
Observed with Poppler 26.04.0-1:
- Evince shows blank pages.
- Okular shows blank pages.
- Firefox/PDF.js shows the PDF correctly.
- pdftocairo renders the pages correctly to PNG:
pdftocairo -png -f 1 -l 2 -r 150 test-slides.pdf test-page
Observed after downgrading to Poppler 26.03.0-1:
- Evince shows the PDF correctly.
- Okular shows the PDF correctly.