Re: Reading pdf files
On 6/13/19, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> wrote:
> Quoting k. jantzen (2019-06-13 16:29:27)
>> 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?
>
> PDF is a big complex data format, and several things could have gone
> wrong, including the file being broken (but in a way that some
> commercial viewers handle more graceful than what you tried on Linux)
> and the files using features from newer revisions of PDF than is
> implemented in those Linux viewers.
>
>> Is there another program that would read such a file?
>
> There are many PDF viewers in Debian. Probably best way to sift through
> them is to install the package apt-xapian-index and run these:
>
> axi-cache search pdf viewer
> axi-cache more
>
>
> When your interest is in what PDF files the applications can render,
> then you need not try them all but can check which underlying PDF
> rendering library they use which are far more limited.
>
> Evince (a.k.a. "documentviewer"), Xpdf, Okular, Atril, Qpdfview and
> others use Poppler:
I started using Atril in last couple years after seeing it mentioned
over on Debian-Accessibility. I haven't used anything else since. I
haven't had any problems reading PDF files, but that just that means
that maybe I haven't encountered any files written in a less than
optimal way..
Wandering off now wondering.... didn't or doesn't one of the viewers
let us do some editing in addition to "just" being a viewer? I'm not
finding it via a couple fairly non-invasive "apt-cache search"
attempts via "main" repositories only. I'm sure I'm not imagining it.
Seems like I remember either mentioning that feature over at
Accessibility or at least thinking about mentioning having encountered
it ages ago. :)
Cindy :)
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