On Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 12:11 PM Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 17:28:10 +0200 > Hans <hans.ullr...@loop.de> wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2019, 16:29:27 CEST schrieb k. jantzen: > > Did you try "Evince" or "Okular"? >
I like evince. > > > > > 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? > > > > > Not all PDF generation programs produce good code. Some PDF readers are > better than others at displaying technically invalid PDFs. I've had > some trouble viewing PDFs exported by LibreCAD in Evince, and a few > other funnies that I can't remember now. > > Adobe Reader does seem a bit better at dealing with dodgy files, and of > course it deals with the extended PDFs e.g. editable forms. > On one of my Ubuntu Systems, I bit the bullet and installed Adobe's Reader but, after seeing how Adobe wanted to take charge of my pdf files, and not be "nice" about CPU and Memory usage, I stopped using it, but left it, as a Resource for "dodgy pdf files". I never tried to install it under Debian, and noticed another response, about it, perhaps not being kept up to date? Kenneth Parker > > -- > Joe > >
