Evince not opening PDF

[Chris Robinson]

It appears to be something to do with the formatting on the first page.  It takes about 40 seconds or maybe more to render it on my machine.  If I scroll off the page and back again, I have to wait for it all over again.  I don't seem to be able to print it but I only tried once: interestingly it's the first time I've seen a parent process (Evince) register 150+% CPU usage (on a dual core machine) in top.

It's either something in the PDF that is borderline wrt the PDF 1.7 standard, or it is a bug in Evince.  I note that the document has been produced possibly in some sort of publishing software and then converted to PDF 1.7 by something called "Elixir PDF Converter".

PDF 1.7 would appear to be a good choice because it's a full featured standard with an equivalent ISO standard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#PDF_1.7
The problem with converting one document format to another however is that it's possible for the output code to be overly complex or even nonsensical.  I'd say try some other PDF viewers as has already been suggested, and possibly log this as a bug in Launchpad.

Chris



----- Original Message -----
> From: OPM595 <opm595 at yahoo.com.au>
> To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Sent: Wednesday, 18 July 2012 9:38 PM
> Subject: Evince not opening PDF
> 
> Hi Guys,
> I installed 12.04 on a friends laptop a few weeks ago and all's been going
> fine up until today when they downloaded and attempted to open a PDF from
> NSW Music Exams Board using Evince. Evince attempts to open and hangs
> while loading. I get the same result from my Laptop using 10.04, and have
> to force Evince to quit.
> 
> Unfortunately, to rub salt into my wounds, this friend has contacted a
> Windows user, who downloaded, opened and printed the document in seconds.
> I've never had a problem ever opening PDF files on Ubuntu, and of all
> things it has to happen now with a new convert :(
> 
> For reference the actual document in question can be downloaded here:
> http://www.ameb.nsw.edu.au/pdf_doc/prac-exam-enrolment-form-2012.pdf
> 
> If anyone could possibly let me know what might be the issue here, that
> would be much appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> Rob
> 
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