xpdf for 20.10?

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 6 Jul 2021 21:02:27 -0500 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On 7/6/21 6:18 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> > At Tue, 6 Jul 2021 14:30:12 -0700 jeff at cjsa.com, "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I missed the beginning of this thread but the subject
> >> line mentions xpdf.  I'm using version 4.03 on
> >> Xubuntu 20.04 and it works great,  It zooms to
> >> a max of 800%, so not the 1600% that may be
> >> wanted.  Is there something wrong with that program?
> >>
> >> http://www.xpdfreader.com/download.html
> >
> > The version that is at that URL does not work under 20.10 -- the version of
> > one of the system libraries is too new.
> >
> > I needed a VM running 20.10 to run a certain program: a DWG viewing program
> > that needs 20.10, so I created a VM and installed 20.10 in it. With the DWG
> > file I want to be able to view is a PDF file.  I originally wanted to keep
> > that PDF with the DWG file, but that is not a viable option (because 20.10
> > lacks a viable PDF viewer).
> >
> >>
> >
> 
> 20.10 (groovy) is reaching its EOL on July 22, so if you upgrade now to
> 21.04 (hirsute) you can install xpdf since it was re-added back to the
> repositories when it was updated to work with newer version of the
> poppler libraries.

OK, I will consider that.

> 
> Will your DWG viewing program not work with a newer version of Ubuntu?

I have no idea.

> 
> Alternatively, you could download and manually install the Debian
> package of xpdf and see how that works. I'd would install the version
> from Buster (stable), but Sid (unstable) might also work.
> 
> 
> Keith
> 

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