On Sunday 25 January 2009 05:49:31 Grant wrote: > >> 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
The problem is the stable version of poppler (app-text/poppler-0.8.7). I have upgrade it to app-text/poppler-0.10.3 and it is working fine now. You will have to run revdep-rebuild after updrading poppler.
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