PDF Reader that will open PDF's created with lastest versions of Adobe?

enine · 08-05-2016, 06:01 PM

I have a recent PDF that GPDF or Okular can't open, only my wife can open it in the Adobe reader on Windows but since she's on windows 10 she can't print.

ardvark71 · 08-06-2016, 12:23 AM

Hi...

Out of curiosity, what and where is the PDF file in question?

Regards...

Michael Uplawski · 08-06-2016, 12:29 AM

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Originally Posted by ardvark71

Out of curiosity, what and where is the PDF file in question?

In case that you cannot provide a link or if the content is sensitive, publish the link to a document created in the identical way, which causes the identical problem to you (and verify both prior publishing).

zk1234 · 08-06-2016, 03:35 AM

One more option to check: if your wife is able to open this PDF with Firefox on Windows, then you can try to do the same on Linux.

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Michael Uplawski · 08-06-2016, 03:47 AM

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Originally Posted by zk1234

One more option to check: if your wife is able to open this PDF with Firefox on Windows, then you can try to do the same on Linux..

Okayokayokay... but if there really were a difference in the behavior of Plugins and standalone readers, this fact should not stay unmentioned. There is something like PDF 1.6 and possibly other sources of mischief. For the time, we have not seen anything pointing in any direction whatsoever.

zk1234 · 08-06-2016, 04:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Michael Uplawski

Okayokayokay... but if there really were a difference in the behavior of Plugins and standalone readers, this fact should not stay unmentioned. There is something like PDF 1.6 and possibly other sources of mischief. For the time, we have not seen anything pointing in any direction whatsoever.

I agree. This is quite an interesting issue. But this is YOUR issue.
I am trying to help to answer a simple question asked by the owner of this topic.

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kjhambrick · 08-06-2016, 04:47 AM

enine --

Not a great solution but I wonder if pdftk ( https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/office/pdftk/ ) can re-write a readable.pdf from the unreadable.pdf ?

Something like:

Code:

pdftk unreadable.pdf output readable.pdf

Or maybe:

Code:

cat unreadable.pdf |pdftk - output readable.pdf

Or even:

Code:

pdftk - output - < unreadable.pdf > readable.pdf

etc ...

-- kjh

55020 · 08-06-2016, 05:52 AM

enine: it would help if you gave some details about "can't open". In particular, do you get this: "If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of the document, your PDF viewer may not be able to display this type of document."

If so, you're just another victim of Adobe's shenanigans. Remember what Microsoft did with .docx? Well, Adobe have done the same thing to pdf. e.g. http://www.quickpdflibrary.com/faq/i...e-document.php

kjhambrick · 08-06-2016, 06:46 AM

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Originally Posted by 55020

<<snip>> ... you're just another victim of Adobe's shenanigans. Remember what Microsoft did with .docx? Well, Adobe have done the same thing to pdf. e.g. http://www.quickpdflibrary.com/faq/i...e-document.php

Yikes !

enine · 08-06-2016, 07:48 AM

Its a PDF that was e-mailed. If I try to open with firefox it just wants to download or open with. She is opening with Adobe pdf reader which isn't available for linux. I don't see it online on the county web site who sent it to us. Its a document for this http://www.dcbdd.org/waiver.php

I've heard about what Adobe is doing so I figured thats the problem.

Okular simply says could not open and Xpdf doesn't even open (it will for other pdf's).

kjhambrick · 08-06-2016, 08:38 AM

enine --

There is an ancient adobe-reader SlackBuild here: https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1.../adobe-reader/

Old ( version 9.5.5 ) but it works on my 14.2 Multilib System ( note this from the README: This only works on the x86 architecture (no x86_64, arm, ...). )

Maybe it will work for you ?

I've also noticed that xpdf can sometimes open files that Okular and Evince can't.

-- kjh

zk1234 · 08-06-2016, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by kjhambrick

I've also noticed that xpdf can sometimes open files that Okular and Evince can't.

-- kjh

Because xpdf uses xpdf (what a sophisticated statement :-), while Okular and Evince use Poppler.

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brobr · 08-07-2016, 05:32 PM

FWIW No problem on evince with http://www.dcbdd.org/resources/Equip....pdf?d=4152016..

qunying · 08-09-2016, 12:32 PM

Try mupdf

jamison20000e · 08-09-2016, 12:50 PM

Can you point to it from here: http://www.dcbdd.org/For%20Community/pdf/
or from searching: site:dcbdd.org .pdf
they seem to open fine here in chrome, ff and Okular but I use "testing" and "unstable" branches... eg: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post5586117