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I have encountered a peculiar situation where a PDF file displays as
gibberish with certain PDF viewers but displays correctly with others.
The PDF file in question can be downloaded from the site:

   https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11856-017-1616-6

however, you might need an institutional subscription to view the full
document, so I am temporarily posting a copy here:

   https://gmarks.org/cklppaper.pdf

The file displays correctly using any of these programs: evince
(version 3.22.1), zathura (version 0.3.7), acroread (version 9.5.5),
mupdf (version 1.9a), xournal (version 0.4.8), gv (version 3.7.4).
As you can perhaps confirm, the file does not display correctly--one
sees only scattered mathematical symbols throughout the pages--if it is
opened with any of the following programs: qpdfview (version 0.4.14),
xpdf (version 3.04), okular (version 0.26.1).  For example, here are
screenshots of what the third page of the PDF file looks like on my
machine as displayed in qpdfview and mupdf, respectively:

   https://gmarks.org/q03.png
   https://gmarks.org/m03.png
  
The file prints correctly to a Postscript printer using lpr from the
command line.

Two questions: (1) Can anyone explain why the file opens correctly with
certain PDF viewers but not with others?  (2) Is there a way to convert
it to a PDF file that renders correctly in every viewer?

Regarding question (1), I don't think the PDF version of the file
(version 1.6) is relevant; other PDF documents with this PDF version
display correctly with qpdfview, etc.  I don't think it has to do with
the fact that qpdfview uses the Poppler library for rendering PDFs,
as programs that displayed the document correctly use Poppler as well.

Regarding question (2), I've tried running pdftops (which generates
numerous "Missing or bad Type3 CharProc entry" syntax errors) followed by
ps2pdf; the new PDF file still displays incorrectly using qpdfview, etc.
Likewise pdf2ps followed by ps2pdf: the resulting PDF file appears in
qpdfview as gibberish, albeit different gibberish than the original PDF
file.  Another failed attempt: "gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-sOutputFile=new.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f cklppaper.pdf" also produces
a new PDF file that will not display in qpdfview.

Here is some additional information.  I opened the file on a different,
older Debian machine and was unable to reproduce the problem.  The PDF
file displayed correctly using qpdfview (version 0.4.14).  Then I
ran "sudo apt-get update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade," after which
qpdfview (version 0.4.14) no longer displayed the PDF file correctly.
A number of packages were upgraded; I think the ones that caused the
problem with qpdfview were:

   poppler-utils (0.48.0-2+deb9u1) over (0.48.0-2)
   libpoppler-qt5-1:amd64 (0.48.0-2+deb9u1) over (0.48.0-2)
   libpoppler-qt4-4:amd64 (0.48.0-2+deb9u1) over (0.48.0-2)
   libpoppler-glib8:amd64 (0.48.0-2+deb9u1) over (0.48.0-2)
   libpoppler64:amd64 (0.48.0-2+deb9u1) over (0.48.0-2)

(Various other packages were upgraded, such as imagemagick-6-common
and libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0, but I don't think those are relevant.)

Regards,
Greg Marks

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PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software Greg Marks <gtmarks@gmail.com> - 2018-01-23 01:30 +0100
  Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-01-23 02:00 +0100
  Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <I.M.Ciobica@upcmail.nl> - 2018-01-23 02:20 +0100
    Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2018-01-23 04:40 +0100
    Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-01-23 11:20 +0100
      Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <I.M.Ciobica@upcmail.nl> - 2018-01-23 14:50 +0100
  Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2018-01-23 11:10 +0100
    Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2018-01-23 11:30 +0100
      Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <I.M.Ciobica@upcmail.nl> - 2018-01-23 14:40 +0100
        [solved]Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2018-01-25 22:10 +0100
          Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-26 03:40 +0100
            Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2018-01-26 10:20 +0100
              Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-27 05:20 +0100

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