Corrupted thumbnail with certain PDFs

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start by reproducing the corrupted thumbnail in the sidebar with the attached test.pdf. Compare the result with Evince, Atril, Okular, and Adobe Reader, then identify and verify the expected thumbnail rendering behavior.

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Description

BUG BUG REPRODUCED Reproduced/Analyzed

Some PDF files produce corrupted thumbnails on the thumbnail sidebar.

It also does not work under Evince and Atril, but with Okular and Adobe Reader.

See attached file
test.pdf

Dominant language
C
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