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mgt6910

[quote="mgt6910"]I have not received LXF118 by post, so I have dowloaded the zipfile, and I also have no text displayed.

IP.S. I've checked back editions, and I confirm that all editions up to 112 display correctly, and from 113 the text is missing.

mgt6910

PS: I have checked back issues and I confirm that up to LXF112 displays OK, from 113 the text is absent.
Adobe Reader gives the following information in properties for documents up to 112:
Application : Adobe InDesign CS3 (5.0.2)
PDF Producer: OneVision PDFengine (Build 19.043.R)

From 113, the information is:

Application:
PDF Producer: GPL Ghostscript 8.62

I'll try to change the default PDF reader........

mgt6910

My solution was to install Adobe Reader. All Open Source readers in Fedora 10 have the problem. Perhaps the F10 team don't know about the libpoppler bug ?

IBBoard · Joined: Wed May 17, 2006 10:30 am Posts: 43

What version of Poppler is Ubuntu using, then? I'm using openSuse 11.1, which apparently has "libpoppler4-0.10.1-1.4" and the PDFs are broken here.

niki123 · Joined: Sat May 30, 2009 10:32 am Posts: 1

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IBBoard · Joined: Wed May 17, 2006 10:30 am Posts: 43

And I object to my post being called a mess Very Happy

I've had a chance to look around now, and it seems like Ubuntu Jaunty is using 0.10.5 - http://packages.ubuntu.com/lt/jaunty/libpoppler4. I'm guessing those few micro versions make a difference.

[edit] Maybe Ubuntu do something weird to their version of libpoppler. I've just installed 0.10.6 from openSuse's X11:common:Factory/openSUSE_11.1 repo (found via the software search) and I'm still getting missing text in the newer PDFs.

Rhakios

I've had a chance to look at this on a system running 11.1 now (I use 11.0 on my main system) and I see the same problem in Okular (KDE4) and KPDF (KDE3), interesting that it doesn't seem to affect previews in Konqueror or Dolphin.
Apart from installing Adobe reader as some have recommended, one other app seems to open the pdfs okay and that's good old KGhostView, which is part of the kdegraphics3-postscript package. I won't try to kid you that its font rendering beautiful, but it does the job, just about.

N.B. I suspect any viewer based on the ghostscript backend will do as well.

Edit: continuing the weirdness, while playing about with Okular, I notice that the Print Preview function shows the full text. Confused

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IBBoard · Joined: Wed May 17, 2006 10:30 am Posts: 43

I'm using Gnome, so it's evince that is giving the missing text (but still using poppler as a base). I can't be doing with all of the KDE clutter, even if openSuse is more KDE-centric Smile

I'll install Adobe Reader if I need to, but at the moment I'm mainly archiving the potentially useful PDFs for future reference.

Rhakios

Given that Gnome is the default desktop for SLED, I don't think openSUSE is actually all that KDE-centric. They seem to manage to afford both pretty good support, thankfully still including KDE3.x.
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IBBoard · Joined: Wed May 17, 2006 10:30 am Posts: 43

Good point, I guess they have gone more for the middle ground. Back in the 9.x days I think they used to be more KDE-centric, which was why I started with Redhat and stuck with Fedora, but Novell invests in Mono so Gnome makes sense now.

Still, I'd be interested to know what it is that makes poppler handle the files okay on Ubuntu Jaunty but not factory builds of openSuse.

Borat · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:06 pm Post subject:

Just downloaded a libpoppler update via mintupdate tool.

Document Viewer.
Using poppler 0.10.5 (cairo)

Seems like the problem has been fixed. Very Happy

ubuntu · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:41 pm Post subject: corrupt pdfs?

having issues with pdf's too! I'm a new subscriber Razz

and i was reading lxf130 and keep getting 'a number is out of range' in adobe reader 9, the file this happens on is lxf130.lxf.pdf. This is extremely annoying so i re-downloaded the file and the same thing again! Sad

Also i have noticed in some editions that there are indeed pages missing such as contents to minor stuff in the back of the mags!

i am using Ubuntu 10.04 and checked the libpoppler and i am using ver 0.12.4 and i don't think this is the problem as the other pdf's display fine so far!

any ideas how to solve this would be very welcome. thanks!

Rhakios · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:29 pm Post subject: Re: corrupt pdfs?

ubuntu · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:34 pm Post subject: corrupt pdfs?

there is nothing wrong with Evince or Okular just totaly overlooked them Rolling Eyes

So i have taken your advice on evince and noticed the error did not occur so i am now setting this as the default!

i just used reader out of habit...a dirty windows habit so that has to stop!

thanks for the reply Rhakios!!!