pdf document from healthcare.gov not opening

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 6:27 PM, sktsee <sktseer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:43:22 -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Brandon Vincent
> > <Brandon.Vincent at asu.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Tommy Trussell
> >> <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > I hope someone else can point to a public example of an
> >> > XFA-containing
> >> PDF
> >> > file folks can test.
> >>
> >>
> >> http://apply07.grants.gov/apply/opportunities/packages/opp14-518-
> cfda47.070.pdf
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Thanks for the example!
> >
> > I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 with all updates, and the only application that
> > can open it seems to be Adobe Reader (from the Ubuntu Partner
> > repository).
> > It's acroread 9.5.5-1precise1 and although it can open the file it's
> > VERY VERY slow to redraw the screen at first. But it CAN open it. Some
> > others have had trouble, but as I mentioned I'm using the one packaged
> > for by Adobe for Ubuntu 12.04.
> >
> > For the record, I also tried these, none of which produced more than the
> > "To view the full contents of this document" message:
> > Mozilla's PDF viewer for Firefox "Document Viewer" (Evince) 3.4.0
> > LibreOffice 4.2.5.2 (Draw module or Writer; not sure)
> > GIMP 2.6.12 PDF Chain 0.3.3 (GUI for pdftk)
> > pdftk 1.44 xpdf 3.02 (this one crashed)
> > pdfShuffler 0.6.0 Krita 2.4.0
> >
> >
> > As I suspected, pdftk wasn't able to help the situation. I used PDF
> > Chain (a GUI front end to pdftk) to have pdftk stripped out the XFA, and
> > then even Adobe Reader couldn't open it. :-(
>
> If OP doesn't mind not using a native linux client pdf reader, then he
> could use Wine + Tracker Software's portable version of its PDF-Xchange
> Viewer (http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer). It
> has a platinum rating in Wine's App database and does open the example pdf
> listed above. It has a much smaller footprint than Adobe Reader Linux
> (zip package is 8MB and executable is 14MB) and a decent set of features
> for a free reader including Javascript and OCR support.
>
> I did run into a problem with the application crashing when clicking a
> button (like Cancel) in the example pdf. But the Windows version also
> crashes, so it doesn't appear to be due to running in it under Wine. So
> it's not perfect replacement for Adobe Reader, but it usually handles
> whatever Evince can't pretty well.
>
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Thanks, I'll give this a try.


garyk
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