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[Cecil Carpenter <cscj01@xxxxxxxxx>]

Something happened to my text when I clicked on "Add an attachment", but
the above document is something that evince in 14.04.1 x64 cannot
handle.  I could read it in 12.04.5 x64 with Adobe Reader but not with
evince.  So I have a number of PDF documents that I cannot read since I
have upgraded because Adobe has abandoned Linux.  Try to open it and you
will get a white screen with the following:

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 am on 14.04.1 x64 with evince 3.10.3-0ubuntu10.1 and poppler-utils
0.24.5-2ubuntu4.

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Title:
  evince won't open PDF files other readers can handle

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

Bug description:
  I've found that the version of evince in 14.04 has perhaps become too
  strict and won't open PDF files that work in other readers.  For
  example with the SPC-4 SCSI spec available from http://www.t10.org
  /cgi-bin/ac.pl?t=f&f=spc4r36q.pdf , I get:

  $ evince spc4r36q.pdf 
  Syntax Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
  Syntax Error: Couldn't read xref table
  Syntax Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
  Syntax Error: Couldn't read xref table

  and the evince window has a red bar saying "PDF document is damaged"

  However, the built-in firefox PDF renderer works fine with that file,
  as does mupdf.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: evince 3.10.3-0ubuntu7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-8.28-generic 3.13.2
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-8-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Wed Feb 19 08:12:32 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-11 (39 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140109)
  KernLog:
   
  SourcePackage: evince
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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