>> >> For some reason, evince won't open PDFs anymore. I've tried different >> >> versions of evince, poppler, and shared-mime-info, but evince says: >> >> >> >> "File type PDF document (application/pdf) is not supported" >> >> >> >> epdfview works, but it segfaults when trying to open shipping labels >> >> from usps.com. Does anyone have any ideas on getting evince back to >> >> normal? I did try deleting .gnome2/evince. >> > >> > Have you recently emerged evince/poppler/poppler-bindings ? >> > >> > To test if perhaps the version on the gentoo servers is currently bad >> > I just now remerged them and did the suggested revdep-rebuild, which as >> > expected rebuilt nothing. Everything worked fine; in particular, >> > evince file.pdf >> > worked. >> > >> > Perhaps you should remerge them in case one of yours is corrupted. >> > >> > Here is the beginning of my emerge showing the use flags >> > >> > allan gottlieb # emerge evince poppler poppler-bindings >> > >> > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: >> > >> > Calculating dependencies... done! >> > [ebuild R ] app-text/evince-2.22.2-r1 USE="dbus doc gnome >> > gnome-keyring tiff -debug -djvu -dvi -t1lib" 1,592 kB [ebuild R ] >> > app-text/poppler-bindings-0.8.7 USE="cairo gtk -qt3 -qt4 -test" 1,436 kB >> > [ebuild R ] app-text/poppler-0.8.7 USE="jpeg zlib -cjk" 0 kB >> > >> > Total: 3 packages (3 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 3,027 kB >> > >> > Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] >> >> It turns out evince, xpdf, and epdfview all segfault on the PDF >> shipping labels produced by usps.com. The latest stable evince does >> open other PDF files, although newer evince versions give me the "not >> supported" problem. >> >> Has anyone successfully opened a usps.com shipping label? >> >> - Grant > > The problem is the stable version of poppler (app-text/poppler-0.8.7). I have > upgrade it to app-text/poppler-0.10.3 and it is working fine now. You will > have to run revdep-rebuild after updrading poppler.
Thank you very much, that fixed it. I needed to upgrade evince and poppler-bindings along with poppler. - Grant
