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Quoting franiortiz hotmail (2019-06-17 11:33:30)
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 12:11:17PM -0700, Fred wrote:
>> On 06/15/2019 08:40 AM, k. jantzen wrote:
>>>On 6/13/19 4:29 PM, k. jantzen wrote:
>>>>in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either 
>>>>xpdf or documentviewer.
>>>>
>>>>But once in a while I get a pdf file that they cannot read and then 
>>>>I have to go to Windows to open it.
>>>>
>>>>What is so spectacular about these files that they cannot be read by 
>>>>the above mentioned programs? Is there another program that would 
>>>>read such a file?

[...]

>>>As stated before I used documentviewer and xpdf.
>>>
>>>As a consequence of this discussion I tried evince and mupdf. They 
>>>did not solve the problem. I did not try atril and okular because for 
>>>those I would have to install so much extra stuff that I probably 
>>>will use only in this context. Thus I do not know whether they would 
>>>solve the problem.
>>>
>>>My conclusion: This seems to be the result of generating the pdf file 
>>>under Windows. To read the file I have to use the latest version of 
>>>the Acrobat Reader. Thus I will continue to use Windows in the few 
>>>cases I get such a document.

[...]

> xournal is a good option

I find Xournal useful for making freeform annotations - in particular 
for writing my signature on contracts where the recipient 
accepts/requires such weak form of digital-but-not-cryptographic 
signature.

...but I highly doubt that Xournal is any better at rendering documents 
which fails to render for Evince (a.k.a. documentviewer) - which was the 
issue raised by the original poster.


 - Jonas

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  Re: Reading pdf files Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2019-06-13 17:30 +0200
    Re: Reading pdf files Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-06-13 18:20 +0200
      Re: Reading pdf files Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2019-06-15 05:40 +0200
        Re: Reading pdf files Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-06-15 09:40 +0200
          Re: Reading pdf files Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-06-15 14:30 +0200
          Re: Reading pdf files Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2019-06-15 16:40 +0200
            Re: Reading pdf files Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-06-15 17:00 +0200
              Re: Reading pdf files Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2019-06-15 17:50 +0200
                Re: Reading pdf files Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-06-15 18:50 +0200
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                Re: Reading pdf files Rory Campbell-Lange <rory@campbell-lange.net> - 2019-06-16 22:00 +0200
                Re: Offlist: Reading pdf files Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2019-06-16 18:40 +0200
      Re: Reading pdf files Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2019-06-18 16:50 +0200
    Re: Reading pdf files Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@math.dartmouth.edu> - 2019-06-13 18:30 +0200
  Re: Reading pdf files Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-06-13 18:50 +0200
    Re: Reading pdf files Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-06-14 15:40 +0200
      Re: Reading pdf files Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-06-14 16:30 +0200
  Re: Reading pdf files Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2019-06-14 11:00 +0200
    Re: Reading pdf files Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-06-14 21:00 +0200
      Re: Reading pdf files Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2019-06-15 07:40 +0200
        Re: Reading pdf files Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-06-15 10:00 +0200
          Re: Reading pdf files Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-06-15 10:10 +0200
          Re: Reading pdf files Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-06-15 10:10 +0200
          Re: Reading pdf files Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2019-06-15 10:20 +0200
          Re: Reading pdf files Rory Campbell-Lange <rory@campbell-lange.net> - 2019-06-15 18:50 +0200
          Re: Reading pdf files David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-06-22 04:00 +0200
            Re: Reading pdf files Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-06-23 04:40 +0200
              Re: Reading pdf files David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-06-24 01:40 +0200
                Re: Reading pdf files Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-06-24 04:40 +0200
  Re: Reading pdf files "k. jantzen" <kdjmailing@mailbox.org> - 2019-06-15 18:00 +0200
    Re: Reading pdf files <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-15 18:40 +0200
    Re: Reading pdf files Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-06-15 19:00 +0200
    Re: Reading pdf files Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2019-06-15 21:20 +0200
      Re: Reading pdf files Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@math.dartmouth.edu> - 2019-06-17 15:30 +0200
        Re: Reading pdf files Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-06-17 18:10 +0200
      Re: Reading pdf files franiortiz hotmail <franiortiz@hotmail.com> - 2019-06-17 23:10 +0200
        Re: Reading pdf files Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-06-18 09:20 +0200

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