[ quotes reordered by time - please consider not top-posting, Hans ] Quoting Gary Dale (2019-06-15 05:35:58) > On 2019-06-13 12:10 p.m., Joe wrote: >>> Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2019, 16:29:27 CEST schrieb k. jantzen: >>>> 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? >> On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 17:28:10 +0200 Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote: >>> Did you try "Evince" or "Okular"? >> Not all PDF generation programs produce good code. Some PDF readers >> are better than others at displaying technically invalid PDFs. I've >> had some trouble viewing PDFs exported by LibreCAD in Evince, and a >> few other funnies that I can't remember now. >> >> Adobe Reader does seem a bit better at dealing with dodgy files, and >> of course it deals with the extended PDFs e.g. editable forms. > Never had a problem with PDF forms using Okular. A reason to avoid Okular is its memory and disk size when used in an otherwise non-KDE environment. Far better than (e.g. virtualized) Windows with Adobe Reader, though :-) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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