Re: [gentoo-user] evince won't open PDFs

[Grant]

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

It turns out evince, xpdf, and epdfview all segfault on the PDF
shipping labels produced by usps.com.  The latest stable evince does
open other PDF files, although newer evince versions give me the "not
supported" problem.

Has anyone successfully opened a usps.com shipping label?

- Grant