Converting pdfs

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2012/10/27 NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>:
> On 10/26/2012 11:33 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>> 2012/10/27 NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>:
>>> On 10/25/2012 08:40 PM, rikona wrote:
>>>> I have a ton of stuff stored in pdf format that will need to be
>>>> accessed for many years to come. With Adobe dropping some linux
>>>> support, is this a significant risk? Is there a way to convert pdfs to
>>>> another format, **reliably**, so I can start to convert docs to a more
>>>> accessible long-term format?
>>>
>>> Take Alexander Skwar's advise. Regarding non-Adobe readers, be aware
>>> that there is a significant bug that affects evince with forms:
>>>
>>> <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668791>
>>> [PDF created by evince unreadable in other pdf viewers]
>>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/897322>
>>> [PDF saved forms are not compatible with Adobe Reader ]
>>
>> Installing poppler 0.19.4 or later will fix it, as it seems.
>>
>
> Well yes Johnny it will. Hence my comment below: "Ubuntu hasn't fixed
> the problem in 12.04 & only upgraded poppler in 12.10 Quantal".
> And had you actually read 668791 prior to commenting, you would have
> found this comment:

Well, that was actually what I did to find out. I didn't even have a
clue about what poppler is before I read that.


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

> <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668791#c10>
> <quote>
> NoOp 2012-05-23 19:50:42 UTC
>
> Found the poppler bug:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49080
> [Bug 49080 - PDF file modified by poppler is not compatible with acroread]
> Status:     RESOLVED FIXED
> From comment #3
> Fixed in 0.19.4
> (commit b1d5c6c0a20a4a24b42de66db23e0f63d10ca52d)
>
> I do not have anything above 0.18 at the moment.
> </quote>
>
> and from
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/897322/comments/13>
> <quote>
> NoOp (glgxg) wrote on 2012-05-23:       #13
>
> Sebastien: This may have been fixed in poppler 0.19.4, see
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49080
> [PDF file modified by poppler is not compatible with acroread]
>
> Poppler stable 0.20 was released <http://poppler.freedesktop.org/> on
> May 10, 2012. Do you know if there is a ppa version that I can test with?
> </quote>
>
>>
>>> This also is apparent with xpdf, okular, and any other PDF application
>>> that uses the libpoppler rendering library. Were I you, I'd be more
>>> concerned as to why Ubuntu hasn't fixed the problem in 12.04 & only
>>> upgraded poppler in 12.10 Quantal. It's the same BS as usual... ignore
>>> LTS release fixes and only concentrate on the next 6 month release.
> ...
>
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