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On Sunday 25 January 2009 05:49:31 Grant wrote: |
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> >> For some reason, evince won't open PDFs anymore. I've tried different |
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> >> versions of evince, poppler, and shared-mime-info, but evince says: |
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> >> |
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> >> "File type PDF document (application/pdf) is not supported" |
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> >> |
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> >> epdfview works, but it segfaults when trying to open shipping labels |
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> >> from usps.com. Does anyone have any ideas on getting evince back to |
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> >> normal? I did try deleting .gnome2/evince. |
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> > Have you recently emerged evince/poppler/poppler-bindings ? |
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> > To test if perhaps the version on the gentoo servers is currently bad |
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> > I just now remerged them and did the suggested revdep-rebuild, which as |
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> > expected rebuilt nothing. Everything worked fine; in particular, |
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> > evince file.pdf |
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> > worked. |
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> > |
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> > Perhaps you should remerge them in case one of yours is corrupted. |
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> > Here is the beginning of my emerge showing the use flags |
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> > allan gottlieb # emerge evince poppler poppler-bindings |
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> > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: |
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> > Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> > [ebuild R ] app-text/evince-2.22.2-r1 USE="dbus doc gnome |
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> > gnome-keyring tiff -debug -djvu -dvi -t1lib" 1,592 kB [ebuild R ] |
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> > app-text/poppler-bindings-0.8.7 USE="cairo gtk -qt3 -qt4 -test" 1,436 kB |
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> > [ebuild R ] app-text/poppler-0.8.7 USE="jpeg zlib -cjk" 0 kB |
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> > |
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> > Total: 3 packages (3 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 3,027 kB |
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> > |
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> > Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] |
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> It turns out evince, xpdf, and epdfview all segfault on the PDF |
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> shipping labels produced by usps.com. The latest stable evince does |
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> open other PDF files, although newer evince versions give me the "not |
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> supported" problem. |
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> Has anyone successfully opened a usps.com shipping label? |
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> - Grant |
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The problem is the stable version of poppler (app-text/poppler-0.8.7). I have |
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upgrade it to app-text/poppler-0.10.3 and it is working fine now. You will |
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have to run revdep-rebuild after updrading poppler. |
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