Quoting k. jantzen (2019-06-15 17:40:24) > On 6/13/19 4:29 PM, k. jantzen wrote: > > 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? [...] > 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. If your problematic files are ok to share, then I can offer to take a closer look at them and try find a better approach for you. Apart from testing PDF viewers, what I would look into is various ways to re-render the PDF, e.g. "ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen oldfile.pdf". - 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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