Re: pdf file is not read correctly
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: pdf file is not read correctly
UTC Time: June 20, 2017 8:19 AM
From: abelahcene@gmail.com
Hi everybody,
Strange, until today, I believed that a pdf file written in any language can be read by a pdf reader, since it is binary !! For example evince, and not I was wrong !!
The
following file is a pdf file in Arabic, it is read correctly under windows
by acrobat reader, but not with evince, some parts are read but not
others, (nevertheless my coding of the system is utf8), but what is the
link with utf8, since pdf is binary !!
Please, how can I fix this problem, thank you very much and in advance
He does have a point about the missing file, all I can contribute is that I have seen multilingual documents with Evince
and in many cases Arabic was included and displayed in correctly. One does not need to understand the language to
identify and distinguish correct display from an error message.
The advice from other contributors about the other packages that read and display pdf's is sound advice.
In addition, there are some conversion packages and/or plugins that convert a pdf to other printable formats, although
I have great doubt that they can do any better job than evince. Are you sure the document is not locked by a password
that evince can not deal with?
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