[xubuntu-users] xpdf: segmentation fault

[Luna Moon]

On 05/09/2012 11:39 AM, Joshua O'Leary wrote:
> On 08/05/12 22:27, Wybo Dekker wrote:
>> I run xubuntu 12.04 and xpdf produces a segmentation fault on all pdfs:
>>
>> $ xpdf main.pdf
>> ***** MediaBox = ll:0,0 ur:595.276,841.89
>> ***** CropBox = ll:0,0 ur:595.276,841.89
>> ***** Rotate = 0
>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>>
>> Is there a solution for this?
> I've found the same problem:
>
> **** MediaBox = ll:0,0 ur:612,792
> ***** CropBox = ll:0,0 ur:612,792
> ***** Rotate = 0
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> Segfaults are almost impossible to fix without recompiling and fixing 
> the code. You may be best off using evince, or zathura, another 
> lightweight PDF viewer.
>
I have yet to try it but you can get the official Adobe Reader from 
Adobe.  Though I might need to install it because some people who send 
me pdfs does not show all the information on evince and so on.
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.1/enu/