Re: [orca-list] PDF reader

[Robert Cole <rkcole72984 gmail com>]

I apologize, Mallory...I sent my last message out before receiving your 
response..

On 12/11/2011 11:51 PM, Mallory van Achterberg wrote:
> Before anyone tries to answer that, are these normal PDFs or are they
> created with some special Adobe-only thing?
>
> I recently had to sign up for a government program which required
> that I read stuff in PDF format. Gnome document viewer was fine for
> many of them, but the one which I was "required" to read would only
> display the text telling me I needed to "update" to a newer version
> of Adobe Reader. This PDF seems to have been created in a version of
> Adobe from 2006, and it seems to check for some special Adobe marking.
> I don't know what. The "real" text is in the file, but if it does not
> "see" this special Adobe something it will only display "upgrade
> Adobe Reader" text.
> Google docs could not display the real text, nor the Gimp after the
> file was converted to ppm (Gimp has Ghostwriter inside now, which can
> read PostScript), and vim only showed that indeed all the actual
> information was there, encoded in PostScript. pdf to text also did
> nothing. (If anyone has any idea how to get around this, or what
> this problem is even called, it would be awesome)
>
> If your school PDFs are normal, then you have a variety of tools to
> check out, but if they actually really require Adobe to open them,
> you'll want a Windows machine or Mac available. I'm stuck using a
> Virtual Box with Windows XP to read the Adobe PDFs.
>
> Also how accessible the PDFs themselves are depends somewhat on how
> they were made.
>
> cheers,
> Mallory
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:42:18AM -0500, Andy B wrote:
> > Is there a pdf reader that is accessible in linux? I need it for school.
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