What broke the PDF reader and how do we fix it?

Recently, something broke the Logseq PDF reader. It’s only loading any PDF, including PDFs it used to load correctly, zoomed in on the left half of pages. Zooming out doesn’t help. It’s parsing the PDF incorrectly, and it’s now completely unusable.

I used to use the PDF reader extensively, and now I can’t use it at all, but I have no idea what would have changed or why. This same document loaded fine within the last few months.

Just found the official issue reported on GH here: PDF viewer not showing complete pages · Issue #12518 · logseq/logseq · GitHub. I added what I could from pointing Claude Code at my mirror of the repo, but hopefully someone who really knows how to fix will dig into it for version 0.10.16!

And in the meantime, for anyone coming across this, rolling Flatpak back to version 0.10.14 using
sudo flatpak update --commit=e0e49d396a630c00ba46f859bbfcb5e3fe4455cc089cd4a776b77029783d60cd com.logseq.Logseq
worked for me.

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