As I said, viewing is not a problem.  Printing from Document Viewer (3.4.0)
is, with these apparently older versions.

-Denis


On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 5:00 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 16:04:59 -0700
> Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> dijo:
>
> >(Running Ubuntu 12.04)
> >
> >I have downloaded a number of pdf files from a website.  In Document
> >Viewer they look fine, print preview looks good, but in printing much
> >is garbage.  Opening them in Chrome they look fine, as does printing.
> >
> >FWIIW I opened one in gedit.  I see the following at the start of the
> >file:
> >
> >%PDF-1.2
>
> PDF version 1.2 is kind of old. But that shouldn't matter for viewing
> it. An older version is a problem only if creating a PDF and trying to
> use features not available in the old version.
>
> I use Evince as my default viewer, and I can't remember ever having a
> problem viewing a PDF file. There are other Linux PDF viewers, notably
> Okular and GSView. And there is always Adobe Reader for Linux. I also
> have installed the proprietary viewers Cabaret and Foxit, as well as
> a number of PDF editors.
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