non standard PDF?

Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindfors at iki.fi
Tue Apr 20 07:46:12 UTC 2010


Theo Schmidt <theo.schmidt at wilhelmtux.ch> writes:
> I'm not able to open this with any of my PDF readers, not even
> xpdf. It doesn't

You should have defined what open means exactly...

1) xpdf 3.02-1.4+lenny2 shows some text but also

"This document requires Adobe Reader version 6.0.1 or
later. To view this document, please download Adobe
Reader from:"

2) mupdf 20090707 shows some text but not the warning.

3) gv 1:3.6.5-2 just says

Error: /unknownerror in --fill--GPL Ghostscript 8.71: Unrecoverable error, exit co

4) evince 2.22.2-4~lenny1 crashes

** (evince:13638): WARNING **: Owner of /tmp/orbit-lindi-sudo is not the current user

Error: ExtGState 'GS0' is unknown
*** glibc detected *** evince: double free or corruption (out): 0x00007f65a6601a60 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0x7f65a6326928]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x76)[0x7f65a6328a36]
/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.3(_ZN12ObjectStreamD1Ev+0x4d)[0x7f65a2fd7ced]
/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.3(_ZN4XRef5fetchEiiP6Object+0xf5)[0x7f65a2fd8b35]
/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.3(_ZN7Catalog12embeddedFileEi+0x23d)[0x7f65a2f6648d]
/usr/lib/libpoppler-glib.so.3(poppler_document_get_attachments+0xad)[0x7f65a7f4385d]
/usr/lib/evince/backends/libpdfdocument.so[0x7f659f2afcbc]
evince[0x443661]
evince[0x44214b]
evince[0x43b380]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x23b)[0x7f65a685b7ab]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0x7f65a685ef7d]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_loop_run+0x1cd)[0x7f65a685f4ad]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_main+0xa7)[0x7f65a8f3f837]
evince[0x44a38d]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x7f65a62d11a6]
evince[0x41ab19]

5) evince 2.28.2-1 shows some text, an owl and "Betrugssignale,
-strategien und -delikte This document requires Adobe Reader version
6.0.1 or later. To view this document, please download Adobe Reader
from: frühzeitig erkennen und vorbeugen http://www.adobe.com/


It seems that the real text is hidden by overlaying some white box on
top of the real text. Maybe some javascript is used to hide this box?

-Timo



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