Evince not opening PDF

[Francis (Grizzly) Smit]

On 18/07/12 22:43, Peter Schwenke wrote:
> On 18/07/12 22:01, Rob Dawson wrote:> I can't say why its hanging but I
> tried it on my 12.04 (64bit) machine
>   > and it took a fair while to open in Evince - >60 seconds.  It opened
>   > instantly in Firefox (using the Adobe plugin) and also instantly in
>   > Acrobat Reader.  I always install AR on my new installs and make it the
>   > default for pdfs just to get all it's 'bells and whistles' but as a
>   > troubleshooting exercise you might want to install AR and try opening it
>   > with that so you can eliminate either of the document or the application
>   > as the cause?
>   >
>
> I think some of the tools for creating PDFs must create stuff outside of
> the "standard".  I recently had one that wouldn't print at 2 to a page
> recently.  I hadn't had one of those for a while so I suspect the last
> one was from the same source.
>
> In the past I have used kpdf is an alternative when I've had issues.
>
> I haven't installed any of the Adobe readers since I had one which
> installed too many "bells and whistles" and had become invasive.
>
>
Try some other pdf programs I find Okular very good, but there are many more

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