xpdf for 20.10?

[Keith]

On 7/6/21 6:18 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Tue, 6 Jul 2021 14:30:12 -0700 jeff at cjsa.com, "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I missed the beginning of this thread but the subject
>> line mentions xpdf.  I'm using version 4.03 on
>> Xubuntu 20.04 and it works great,  It zooms to
>> a max of 800%, so not the 1600% that may be
>> wanted.  Is there something wrong with that program?
>>
>> http://www.xpdfreader.com/download.html
>
> The version that is at that URL does not work under 20.10 -- the version of
> one of the system libraries is too new.
>
> I needed a VM running 20.10 to run a certain program: a DWG viewing program
> that needs 20.10, so I created a VM and installed 20.10 in it. With the DWG
> file I want to be able to view is a PDF file.  I originally wanted to keep
> that PDF with the DWG file, but that is not a viable option (because 20.10
> lacks a viable PDF viewer).
>
>>
>

20.10 (groovy) is reaching its EOL on July 22, so if you upgrade now to
21.04 (hirsute) you can install xpdf since it was re-added back to the
repositories when it was updated to work with newer version of the
poppler libraries.

Will your DWG viewing program not work with a newer version of Ubuntu?

Alternatively, you could download and manually install the Debian
package of xpdf and see how that works. I'd would install the version
from Buster (stable), but Sid (unstable) might also work.


Keith