Pedro Villavicencio wrote:
> It works fine here with Gutsy, which version of Ubuntu are you running?
> May you tell us what you expect to see in the document?
> 
> ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Incomplete
> 

OK, now I know what the problem was: file permissions. (I thought 
everything in the directory I was reading was public-read, but I didn't 
check.) This is almost always the problem in such cases, and I have 
known that for 20 years or so, so I am extremely embarrassed to have 
missed it this time.  I was hasty and careless.  I apologize for the 
resulting noise and fuss.

However: it would have helped if the error message from evince had said 
something like "permission denied" instead of "Failed to load document 
from data (error 1)".  This is a design problem, not a bug.

Eric

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evince fails to open common pdf files
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