Some I could but others refused to open with the Mint Document Viewer.
Since 2010 I have been scanning documents and creating pdfs from them
before shredding them.
Most of them were scanned by a Fujitsu cut-sheet feeder.
I had to use Fujitsu's software but that only runs under Windows XP.
I have had too retain a virtual XP ever since.
Today I had to trace back through the pdfs to uncover some information.
Some I could but others refused to open with the Mint Document Viewer.
Naturally I turned to Google. Most suggestions were useless but I hoped
that xpdf mught turn out to be a winner. Not in Mint's repository. :(
Next I tried opening one file in LibreOffice writer and it did! :)
But it was the only one. :(
Is there anyone that has cracked this?
TIA
Did you try qpdfview?
My tool of choice for checking PDFs is qpdf. qpdf has a --check argument that does well to find problems in PDFs.
QPDF is a program that can be used to linearize (web-optimize),
encrypt (password-protect), decrypt, and inspect PDF files from the command-line. It does these and other structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files, reading a PDF file as input and
creating a new one as output. It also provides many useful
capabilities to developers of PDF-producing software or for people
who just want to look at the innards of a PDF file to learn more
about how they work.
QPDF understands PDF files that use compressed object streams
(supported by newer PDF applications) and can convert such files into
those that can be read with older viewers. It can also be used for
checking PDF files for structural errors, inspecting stream contents,
or extracting objects from PDF files. QPDF is not PDF content
creation or viewing software -- it does not have the capability to
create PDF files from scratch or to display PDF files.
This package includes the command-line qpdf tools. It also contains
the documentation.
qpdfview is a simple tabbed document viewer which uses the Poppler library for
PDF rendering and CUPS for printing and provides a clear and simple Qt graphical user interface. Support for the DjVu and PostScript formats can be added via plugins.
Current features include:
- Outline, properties and thumbnail panes
- Scale, rotate and fit
- Fullscreen and presentation views
- Continuous and multi-page layouts
- Search for text (PDF and DjVu only)
- Configurable toolbars
- SyncTeX support (PDF only)
- Partial annotation support (PDF only, Poppler version 0.20.1 or newer)
- Partial form support (PDF only)
- Persistent per-file settings
- Support for DjVu and PostScript documents via plugins
Since 2010 I have been scanning documents and creating pdfs from them
before shredding them.
Most of them were scanned by a Fujitsu cut-sheet feeder.
I had to use Fujitsu's software but that only runs under Windows XP.
I have had too retain a virtual XP ever since.
Today I had to trace back through the pdfs to uncover some information.
Some I could but others refused to open with the Mint Document Viewer.
Naturally I turned to Google. Most suggestions were useless but I hoped
that xpdf mught turn out to be a winner. Not in Mint's repository. :(
Next I tried opening one file in LibreOffice writer and it did! :)
But it was the only one. :(
Is there anyone that has cracked this?
TIA
Mike Easter wrote:
Jeff Layman wrote:
Did you try qpdfview?
I see this in a discussion about problem .pdf/s:
My tool of choice for checking PDFs is qpdf. qpdf has a --check
argument that does well to find problems in PDFs.
In my repo/s (synaptic view), it looks like qpdf and qpdfview are
'distinct'; one's package doesn't include the other.
It seems to me that the only thing they have in common are the letters "qpdf"!
Jeff Layman wrote:
Did you try qpdfview?
I see this in a discussion about problem .pdf/s:
My tool of choice for checking PDFs is qpdf. qpdf has a --check argument that does well to find problems in PDFs.
In my repo/s (synaptic view), it looks like qpdf and qpdfview are
'distinct'; one's package doesn't include the other.
Since 2010 I have been scanning documents and creating pdfs from them
before shredding them.
Most of them were scanned by a Fujitsu cut-sheet feeder.
I had to use Fujitsu's software but that only runs under Windows XP.
I have had too retain a virtual XP ever since.
Today I had to trace back through the pdfs to uncover some information.
Some I could but others refused to open with the Mint Document Viewer.
Naturally I turned to Google. Most suggestions were useless but I hoped
that xpdf mught turn out to be a winner. Not in Mint's repository. :(
Next I tried opening one file in LibreOffice writer and it did! :)
But it was the only one. :(
Is there anyone that has cracked this?
TIA
Is there anyone that has cracked this?
On 7/25/22 11:19, pinnerite wrote:
Is there anyone that has cracked this?
Cracked what? What is your question, exactly? Precisely! What is your question?
On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 19:19:20 -0700
stepore <stepore@be.here.now> wrote:
Cracked what? What is your question, exactly? Precisely! What is your
question?
Read the subject line first.
On 7/29/22 11:52, pinnerite wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 19:19:20 -0700
stepore <stepore@be.here.now> wrote:
Cracked what? What is your question, exactly? Precisely! What is
your question?
Read the subject line first.
Your subject line isn't a question.
You don't really ask one at all, other than:
"Is there anyone that has cracked this?"
I mean we can infer what you're asking, but we shouldn't have to.
Is your question, how do I open my crazy pdf files?
Or, maybe how do i download xpdf?
Or is it, LibreOffice writer actually works, thank you very much to
the developers, how can I send them a contribution?
Ask a specific question next time. :(
It’s pretty obvious, they want to read their unreadable PDF files.
I found a good solution on-line. I posdted it to the alt.os.linux.mint newsgroup
Sorry.
On 7/30/22 02:52, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
It’s pretty obvious, they want to read their unreadable PDF files.
They already said they opened them in LibreOffice.
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