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| From | Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Reading pdf files |
| Date | 2019-06-14 11:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <y8QdX-738-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <y8zd7-5bY-5@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On 13.06.19 16:29, k. jantzen wrote: > > in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either xpdf or > documentviewer. Yup, documentviewer will sometimes show faint lines better, I find, but it's easy to set the background colour in xpdf. > 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? That varies, and a reader with good error messages is the easiest way to find out. > Is there another program that would read such a file? Well, given s/would/could, try mupdf: $ apt-cache search mupdf mupdf - lightweight PDF viewer mupdf-tools - commmand line tools for the MuPDF viewer libmupdf-dev - development files for the MuPDF viewer In my case, a pdf certificate from a state authority displayed the logo and signature in xpdf, but none of the text - not much use at all. A quick install of mupdf not only allowed the whole document to be displayed, but issued (a squillion times) the following error message on stderr: Error: Couldn't create a font for 'ABCDEE+Calibri,Bold' Error: Found a bad table definition on true type definition, trying to continue... after an initial: Error: PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table... I only use mupdf for problem pdf files, but it's very nifty to have on hand. Erik
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Reading pdf files "k. jantzen" <kdjmailing@mailbox.org> - 2019-06-13 16:50 +0200
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
Re: Reading pdf files Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2019-06-16 17:40 +0200
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
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