On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:14:47 -0400
Haines Brown <haines@???> 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.
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