On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:14:47 -0400 Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> wrote:
> Recently and not in association with any system changes, atril and xpdf > no longer displays the content of perhaps half my PDF files. They see > all the pages, but they are blank. An exception is that sometimes a > cover page, TOC, download notice at bottom of pages, or the graphics are > displayed, but not the text. This is consistent: a failure or success > repeats on subsequent tries. > > This happens whether the PDF is version 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6. It happens > on my desktop machine whether using atril or xpdf. It does not happen if > I copy a problematic PDF to USB key and display it with xpdf on a laptop > that has the same version of Devuan Jessie, kernel and xpdf. However, > that same file on key fails to be displayed by my desktop machine. > > The desktop has auto-upgrades, but not the laptop. However both machines > running Devuan Jessie with 3.16.0-4-amd64, The version of xpdf the same > on both desktop and laptop. > > I've got 32 Gb RAM on this machine and no other PDFs are being > displayed. I tried to reboot to clean things out, but that didn't help. > > The xpdf Find utility can find words in the body of a text, but displays > them only as black rectangle. So the problem seems to be the display of > the font. > $ xpdf -fg black Abrams1995.pdf > error: "black" file not found > Printing the PDF has same result as its display. I have noticed the same behaviour in recent days, but while the .pdf files do not display properly in evince or pdfshuffler, they do in gv. Cheers, Ron. -- The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell. -- Augustine, bishop of Hippo -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -- _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng