Dear Mr. Menzel,
On 2022-08-31 01:33, Paul Menzel wrote:
[Resent from correct address, and added point 3.]
Dear Udvarias,
Am 31.08.22 um 00:05 schrieb Udvarias Ur via evince-list:
I recently got my /Québec Pension Plan/ PDF documents from their
secure /My Account/ WEB site.
/Evince/, both versions 3.18.2 (32 bit) and 3.36.10 (64 bit) open the
documents. *Neither displayed any of the data!* On the other hand
none of the following had any trouble.
* /Adobe Read 9/ (32 bit),
* /flpsed/ 0.7.3 (32 bit),
* /MuPDF/ (32 bit), and
* /Libre Office Draw/ 5.1.6.2 (32 bit).
Thank you for your reporting the issue. What distribution do you use?
OOPs! I recently upgraded /TB/ & forgot to add the signature which
contains this info. It's now below.
That being said when I added a password to one of the documents, so I
could send it by eMail;
* Evince, as usual,
o asked for the password,
o accepted the pasting of the password and
o then opened the document *without any of the data*,
* Adobe Read 9
o insisted that I type in the the password
o but wouldn't accept it because it has punctuation in it.
Sorry, just to be clear, this is a second bug report that adding a
password with Evince, the document cannot be opened by Adobe Reader?
To fix these issues, can you please:
1. Test with the latest Evince release to confirm the problem is
still present.
2. If it’s still present, create an issue and provide an example
document to reproduce the issue.
3. Contact the Québec Pension Plan folks, notifying them about the
issue.
As stated above I ran the tests with both versions 3.18.2 (32 bit) and
3.36.10 (64 bit).
The problem was not Evince, which accepted the third party password
added by /PDFtk/. It was /Adobe Reader/.
Further tests, done after I first posted this, with /Adobe Reader 9/ are
that it works fine as long as I don't use punctuation in the password.
There would be no point in contacting the /Québec Pension//Plan/, as
they have no control over how any application, including /Adobe Reader/,
works, let alone a party application like /PDFtk/.
As Adobe has *not* supported Linux since 2010 and Evince has become
the flagship PDF reader for Linux, I think it behoves the Evince
developers to keep up with and implement the features of the most
recent version of Adobe Read. If this does not happen Linux users
will be forced either to go back to Windows or Mac so as not to be
relegated to the backwaters of the computing world.
Thank you, but this comment is unnecessary, as especially the Evince
developers are well aware of this. The problem is as always in FLOSS
manpower and financial resources to pay developers.
Again, as mentioned above, these documents load properly in versions of
/Adobe Reader 9/ (2010), /flpsed/ (2015), /MuPDF/ (2015), /Libre Office
Draw/ (2016) all of which are 6 or 7 years old, excluding /Adobe Reader/
which is 12 years old.
I'm just a lowly retiree on a fixed income. If I had the knowledge and
skill I just download the source and fix it myself.
Kind regards,
Paul
Dear Mr. Sargent,
Regardless of any feelings as long as the PDF file format is used,
especially by major organisations, to disseminate information there is
no pandering. Is using a refrigerator pandering refrigerator makers?
On 2022-08-30 18:22, Rob Sargent via evince-list wrote:
Annoying as it is when something doesn't work anymore, I'm not sure
pandering to the PDF makers is a good thing either. Not a format I
would miss if it disappeared.
--
Udvarias Ur
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