XPDF

[Thomas Templin]

On Friday 15 July 2005 12:20, Hubertus Hiden wrote:
> René L. Reingard schrieb:
> > Hello
> > XPDF does not open me a file with the size of 669 kB.
> > Is there a limitation in this softwares capability?
> > thanks for hints on handling PDF better.
> > René
>
> Hello,
>
> Well I don't think that size matters. But I've also discovered
> some pdf files that can't be opened using xpdf or gpdf. One of
> these files (pdf version 1.3) is for example
> http://www.guzzipfarrer.at/MotorradsegnungenBilder/Pressemeldun
> gen/Biker_Ausschnitt_100dpi.PDF 
>
> So IMHO there a some files that cause troubles with x|gpdf.
>
> Anyone have an idea ?

Hhhm interesting.

Opening this file with evince 0.3.2 (btw an excellent PDF viever IMO 
much better than x/g/k/pdf) works fine here.

Viewing the file with xpdf 3.0 brings an error message:

---8<---
xpdf Biker_Ausschnitt_100dpi.PDF
Error (5781): Bad Huffman code in DCT stream
---8<---

I've been looking for a powerfull pdf viewer for quite a long time 
now and evince is exactly what I've been looking for. Fullscreen 
mode, presentation mode, support for transparency, and a seamless 
gnome integration...

So I dumped acroread, another piece of proprietary software 
to /dev/garbage, yeahh :)

http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/evince/


Bye,
Thomas