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On 2008-01-27T18:33:25+00:00 Keenan Pepper wrote:

Instead of the actual document text, Poppler renders this as a single page that
says:

"To view the full contents of this document, you need a later version of the
PDF viewer. You can upgrade
to the latest version of Adobe Reader from
www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
For further support, go to www.adobe.com/support/products/acrreader.html"

I think Poppler can do better.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open http://undergradresearch.fsu.edu/Gfx/summer_award.pdf with Evince

Actual results:
Evince displays some lame error message embedded in the PDF.

Expected results:
Evince should display a "best effort" rendering of the actual text I want to
read.

Does this happen every time?
Yes.

Other information:
This seemed similar to some other reported bugs in Evince, but in all the ones I looked at, highlighting the text made it visible. In this case, highlighting does nothing.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/poppler/+bug/321720/comments/0

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On 2008-01-28T09:14:08+00:00 Brad Hards wrote:

That appears to be implemented with javascript. I'm not sure if it is
really poppler's job to do that. I'm seeing it more as part of the
reader (e.g. okular or evince).

Not positive though.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/poppler/+bug/321720/comments/1

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On 2008-01-28T09:47:45+00:00 Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:

Well, javascript actions are not supported by poppler. The reader even
doesn't know that there is javascript there if poppler doesn't support
it.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/poppler/+bug/321720/comments/2

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On 2008-01-28T13:22:42+00:00 Keenan Pepper wrote:

Well, I originally filed this bug over at the GNOME Bugzilla, on Evince,
but someone closed it "NOTGNOME" and said it was a Poppler bug. (The
GNOME bug is #512160, but the database seems to be down at the
moment...) Anyway, it has to be someone's fault! =)

BTW, is the example file technically a standards-compliant PDF, or a
broken, non-standard one?


Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/poppler/+bug/321720/comments/3

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On 2008-01-28T18:23:24+00:00 Albert Astals Cid wrote:

The pdf is ok, just doing ugly things to keep non acrobat readers
viewers out of the game. And i think JavaScript handling should be done
inside poppler, at least partially.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/poppler/+bug/321720/comments/4

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On 2011-06-19T22:18:18+00:00 Albert Astals Cid wrote:

*** Bug 20490 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/poppler/+bug/321720/comments/22

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On 2011-06-21T19:15:13+00:00 Albert Astals Cid wrote:

*** Bug 35701 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/poppler/+bug/321720/comments/23

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On 2011-07-27T11:44:24+00:00 Albert Astals Cid wrote:

*** Bug 39592 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/poppler/+bug/321720/comments/24

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On 2011-08-04T12:22:33+00:00 Albert Astals Cid wrote:

*** Bug 39826 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/poppler/+bug/321720/comments/25

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Title:
  PDF v1.7 asks to upgrade Adobe Reader

Status in Poppler:
  Confirmed
Status in “poppler” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Evince cannot read the pdf format created with Adobe 8.1.3
  This results in the file displaying the below message. Presumably, this is the message that Adobe Reader 8.1.3 and higher will save into the pdf files for readers that are only familiar with older pdf formats. This kind of monopolizing is typical of closed source programs.
  ------------------------------------
  To view the full contents of this document, you need a later version of the PDF viewer. You can upgrade
  to the latest version of Adobe Reader from www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

  For further support, go to www.adobe.com/support/products/acrreader.html
  -----------------------------------

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  Original complaint is below. The complaint inaccurately attributes the message to a mistake on the part of the linux pdf readers.
  ------
  Binary package hint: evince

  1) I am using Ubuntu 8.10 with all updates installed as of the time of
  this writing (Jan. 26, 2009).

  2) The version of the Evince Document Viewer is 2.24.1.

  3) What I expected:
  By opening the PDF in Adobe's PDF viewer, this PDF is a editable form with text boxes, drop-down menus, check boxes, and two buttons to initiate emailing or printing the form.

  4) What actually happened:
  This following message was displayed (within the document as though that is what the document actually was):
  ------------------------------------
  To view the full contents of this document, you need a later version of the PDF viewer. You can upgrade
  to the latest version of Adobe Reader from www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

  For further support, go to www.adobe.com/support/products/acrreader.html
  -----------------------------------

  No Linux or Ubuntu user should have to see a message like
  that...telling them they have to use non-free software.

  I am in the process of asking the author of the file information about
  how she made it...like what program she used, what version it is, and
  possibly what version of the PDF standard it is, in case that
  information would help.  I will edit this report and comment below if
  I have any new information.

  Sorry that I don't know if this is a truly an Evince bug or Poppler
  bug.  I am doing the best I can to help.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: evince 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: evince
  Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686

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