On 6/13/19, Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@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 :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *
