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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 592263
Owner: ----
Closed: Mar 2016
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EstimatedDays: ----
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OS: Mac
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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PDF Viewer failing on certain PDFs

Reported by g...@zoomforth.com, Mar 18 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.87 Safari/537.36

Example URL:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7332577/broken_pdf.pdf

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. visit https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7332577/broken_pdf.pdf
2. observe broken view experience -- small parts of the PDF will show when you scroll, otherwise the PDF is obscured
3. download the file
4. open in any PDF viewer other than Chrome PDF Viewer
5. observe that the PDF behaves as expected

What is the expected behavior?
The PDF Viewer should display the full content of the PDF.

What went wrong?
The PDF Viewer displays only small bits of the PDF content while scrolling, and otherwise the PDF is completely obscured.

Does it occur on multiple sites: Yes

Is it a problem with a plugin? No 

Did this work before? N/A 

Does this work in other browsers? Yes 

Chrome version: 49.0.2623.87  Channel: stable
OS Version: OS X 10.9.5
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 21.0 r0

Thank you for your attention.
 
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Comment 1 by meh...@chromium.org, Mar 18 2016

Components: -Blink Internals>Plugins>PDF
We are seeing similar behavior ... We can confirm that all known issues are happening on OS X 10.9.5. However, with one form we are able to open it cleanly on one 10.9.5 computer but not another.

I've attached a screenshot of the broken display. I can provide the source PDF if helpful (It is a PDF despite the filename displayed).

We will keep on eye on things to provide more information to isolate and replicate the problem.

Unfortunately, I AM able to open the provided "TRIDIUM" pdf attached to this ticket on my 10.9.5 machine, so it appears this is not an easy bug to replicate.
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Just to be clear, we started seeing this after in Chrome v49. No reported issues before that.
It appears this is a duplicate of https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=592263
And this work-around works for us (from the 592263 ticket):

Unchecking Preferences > System > "use hardware acceleration when available" 

Comment 6 by tapted@chromium.org, Mar 20 2016

Mergedinto: 592263
Status: Duplicate (was: Unconfirmed)

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