Investigation into the code reveals that *I think* the issue is that evince-gtk does not handle compression at all and that somehow mozplugger is compressing (or making appear compressed anyway) the pdf files.
The best fix for this is to allow evince to replace evince-gtk without breaking xubuntu-desktop. Unless the evince-gtk people want to add to their package, but that seems counter to its purpose. -- mozplugger and evince-gtk can't open pdf file in Xubuntu https://launchpad.net/bugs/84233 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
