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[Christopher Mendillo <chris.mendillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Edouard,

Yes, I can confirm that appending the "showpage" command to my eps files
causes them to be rendered correctly by evince and libspectre. From what
I can tell reading the latest EPS standard
(https://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/ps/5002.EPSF_Spec.pdf),
as you say, showpage is allowed in eps, but should be redefined by
programs that import eps. evince libspectre should do so in order to
display correctly formatted eps files that lack the superfluous showpage
command.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1348384

Title:
  evince and okular do not render eps files correctly resulting in a
  black background

Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “libspectre” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Several eps files, which previously rendered correctly, are not
  rendered correctly by evince and okular.  It looks as though something
  is wrong with the "transparency" setting, since most of the
  incorrectly-rendered files have a black background, but the figure can
  somewhat be made out on top of hte black background.  The PDF files I
  have tested are NOT affected.  EPS files that were previously viewable
  correctly ARE affected.

  Thank you for your time.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: evince 3.10.3-0ubuntu10.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Jul 24 16:54:06 2014
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: evince
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-06-03 (51 days ago)

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