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From: David <dcorraly@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] evince won't open PDFs
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:10:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901250710.52068.dcorraly@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10901242049t43585e8dvc7df9e075c4336db@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sunday 25 January 2009 05:49:31 Grant wrote:
> >> 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.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-25  6:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-24 20:09 [gentoo-user] evince won't open PDFs Grant
2009-01-24 21:26 ` Allan Gottlieb
2009-01-25  4:49   ` Grant
2009-01-25  6:10     ` David [this message]
2009-01-25 15:32       ` Grant
2009-01-24 21:32 ` Saphirus Sage
2009-01-25  4:04   ` Chris Thomas
2009-01-25  4:26     ` Saphirus Sage

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