Re: Reading pdf files

["k. jantzen" <kdjmailing@mailbox.org>]

On 6/13/19 4:29 PM, k. jantzen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks for your help.

Hello,

thanks a lot for this interesting discussion.

As stated before I used documentviewer and xpdf.

As a consequence of this discussion I tried evince and mupdf.
They did not solve the problem.
I did not try atril and okular because for those I would have to install 
so much extra stuff that I probably will use only in this context.
Thus I do not know whether they would solve the problem.

My conclusion: This seems to be the result of generating the pdf file 
under Windows. To read the file I have to use the latest version of the 
Acrobat Reader. Thus I will continue to use Windows in the few cases I 
get such a document.

Thanks a lot.

K.D.J.