[Bug 1768840] Re: Evince 3.18.2 claims excessive memeoy when opening a multipage file created with AbbyyFineReader14 (AFR14, runs on Windows10)

The same memory-wasteful and cpu stressing behavior also shows up in GIMP and in Xpdf. It might be a bug in Poppler, the underlying pdf representation library, I suspect. According to Poppler's site, Evince, Gimp and Xpdf all rely on poppler. -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 1768840] Re: Evince 3.18.2 claims excessive memeoy when opening a multipage file created with AbbyyFineReader14 (AFR14, runs on Windows10)

** Attachment added: "TIF file which was included twice into the 2-pages pdf file by AFR14" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1768840/+attachment/5132964/+files/Test-AFR14_00-00_SW.tif -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs,

[Bug 1768840] [NEW] Evince 3.18.2 claims excessive memeoy when opening a multipage file created with AbbyyFineReader14 (AFR14, runs on Windows10)

Public bug reported: If Evince 3.18.2 (running on Xubuntu 16.04.4) loads such a pdf file (e.g. after doubleclicking on the file name in Thunar), a few seconds later more than 3 GiB of RAM are in use. Then memory consumption stays almost stationary for some time to sharply rise again. Finally y