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Segmentation fault with xpdf on 12.04

Asked by ClairGarman

I have recently upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04. When running xpdf to view PDF files from the command line:

$ xpdf MVA.pdf
***** CropBox = ll:0,0 ur:612,792
***** Rotate = 0
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re 18 72 576 648
W
n
rg 0 0 1
re 558 297 9 414
f
q
re 47 623 491 14
W
n
BT
Tf /F3 12
  font: tag=F3 name='Helvetica-Bold' 12
rg 0 0 0
TL 543.261
Td 255.456 626.112
Tj (Your Receipt)
T*
ET
Q
q
re 56 596 140 14
W
n
BT
Tf /F4 10
  font: tag=F4 name='Helvetica' 10
rg 0 0 0
TL 452.718
Td 87.912 600.912
Tj (Transaction Date)
T*
ET
Q
q
re 56 578 140 14
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... many similar lines

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I have the same result on a half dozen other PDF files. I could not find any PDF files that did not fault.

I tried zxpdf and got the same result. gs and pdfedit do not fault, but do not allow me to view the entire file.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Does it happen with all PDFs? Can you open the same PDF in other apps. Do you just want a slim PDF viewer?

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ClairGarman (cgar) said : 		#2

As I said at the bottom of my posting:

I have the same result on a half dozen other PDF files. I could not find any PDF files that did not fault.

I tried zxpdf and got the same result. gs and pdfedit do not fault, but do not allow me to view the entire file.

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Are there other PDF viewers I should try?

Yes, a slim PDF viewer would suffice, although I am disturbed that xpdf is broken in 12.05.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:guilhem-fr/mupdf
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mupdf

Fast as lightning :)

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ClairGarman (cgar) said : 		#4

mupdf works fine, but it lacks most of the features of xpdf, e.g. Save As. It will suffice for most of my usage, but why is xpdf broken in 12.04?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Could report a bug

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ClairGarman (cgar) said : 		#6

A bug was apparently reported http://askubuntu.com/questions/159608/xpdf-segmentation-fault-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts

I have found another wonderful PDF reader that provides the features of xpdf and does not seg fault - gnome-open.