pdf document from healthcare.gov not opening

[johnny]

You have a good problem. Healthcare.gov is having troubles with their 
web site from day one and it still is still having problems. I would 
call them(LOL) to see what they say. What they have done is put a file 
inside of the pdf file. So it is like trying to open two files at once. 
The government does weird things. You mite could get it open with a lot 
of work. Then again it mite be a mess up on their sit and it really is a 
blank file.
Lots of luck and God Bless Johnny
PS it mite have been on one of the 6 hard drive that went bad all at 
once with the IRS. I hear the IRS has the Brooklyn bridge up for sale.


On 07/11/2014 06:18 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick 
> <garyartista at gmail.com <mailto:garyartista at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>     On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker
>     <gordon at gbpcomputing.co.uk <mailto:gordon at gbpcomputing.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>         On 09/07/14 19:05, Gary J. Kirkpatrick wrote:
>>         I can download the pdf and open it, but the document is blank
>>         except for the notification stating:
>>
>>         f this message is not eventually replaced by the proper
>>         contents of the document, your PDF viewer may not be able to
>>         display this type of document.
>>         You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader for
>>         Windows®, Mac, or Linux®
>>
>>         I am using 14.04 and have installed all the updates so I
>>         should think the version I have is the latest.
>>
>>         Any thoughts?
>>
>>
>>         thanks
>>
>>
>>         garyk
>>
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>
>         Link to the document would be good....
>
>
>     It's personal.
>
> I hope someone else can point to a public example of an XFA-containing 
> PDF file folks can test.
>
> In the meantime, you MIGHT try making a copy of the file and seeing 
> what happens if you use drop_xfa command in the pdftk utility 
> (available in Ubuntu's software center). You might also see if you can 
> open (a copy of) the file using PDF-shuffler (also in the software 
> center) or using the PDF import feature of LibreOffice or GIMP.
>
> I suspect pdftk will delete all or most of the file's content, but on 
> the other hand I have been quite impressed over the years at its 
> ability to handle unexpected pdf content. If you want to read more 
> about it without installing it, here is the man page: 
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/pdftk.1.html
>
> Nowadays I use PDF-shuffler for the things I used to use pdftk for, 
> but pdftk can do much much more. Unfortunately pdftk has a damnedly 
> idiosyncratic syntax. (In other words I think most folks might find it 
> hard to use.)
>
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