empty PDF files

sesamsys · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:18 am Post subject: empty PDF files

Hello!

I was trying to check these PDF files with gpdf, and surprisingly all I got is one empty sheet. I emerged kpdf, but got the same result. What could be wrong with my system? A windows friend claims the PDF files are all in order and seeable.
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coco-loco · Apprentice Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 249

Same for me. I have this problem with a few other pdf-files. I think that it is an issue only with documents created with the latest generation of adobe software.
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sternklang · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 4:33 pm Post subject:

You may want to emerge acroread to see if Adobe Reader can view the files -- it should work with the most recent PDF files. That being said, acroread is big, slow and clunky, something I avoid using unless absolutely necessary.

I use evince as my normal PDF viewer, but I think that all of the standard PDF viewing programs (gpdf, kpdf, xpdf) use the same underlying poppler library as evince does, so I don't think that would help you. But you never know, you could always try. :wink:

Ma3oxuct · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 523

I use acroread for all of my pdfs.....These pdfs also turned up blank for me.

sternklang · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 5:27 pm Post subject:

I didn't try opening one until now. What I get from Adobe Reader is:

sesamsys · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject:

My system has cjk, nls and unicode USE flags from the very start.
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sternklang · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:17 pm Post subject:

This is an area I don't have any experience with. The Gentoo Linux Localization Guide talks about a lot of things besides USE flags, so it may be more needs to be done on your system for this to work properly.

It's also possible that what coco-loco said about newer PDFs not working with the open source PDF software is true. I just emerged media-fonts/acroread-asianfonts to test it out and now the documents are no longer blank. (At least the first one, which is the only one I tested.)

sesamsys · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:24 pm Post subject:

Thank you very much, the font package did the trick. Seemingly the Japanese fonts i already had weren't enough. And still gpdf is blank, only the original Acroread program shows the document properly. I guess another example when a company doeasn't really want his files to be readable with a third party software.
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