* bug#43815: emacs-pdf-tools often doesn't display text @ 2020-10-05 14:55 Pierre Neidhardt 2020-10-05 16:10 ` zimoun 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Pierre Neidhardt @ 2020-10-05 14:55 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 43815 [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 382 bytes --] Hi! For a few weeks (since Emacs 27?) I've experienced an issue with emacs-pdf-tools: many PDFs don't display any text. If I convert the PDF to PDF with Ghostscript then it displays properly. For now I only have private PDFs to reproduce, I still need to found a public PDF. Has anyone else experienced this? Cheers! -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 511 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* bug#43815: emacs-pdf-tools often doesn't display text 2020-10-05 14:55 bug#43815: emacs-pdf-tools often doesn't display text Pierre Neidhardt @ 2020-10-05 16:10 ` zimoun 2020-10-05 17:29 ` Pierre Neidhardt 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: zimoun @ 2020-10-05 16:10 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Pierre Neidhardt; +Cc: 43815 On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 at 16:56, Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> wrote: > For now I only have private PDFs to reproduce, I still need to found a > public PDF. How do you produce these private PDFs? > Has anyone else experienced this? No on the PDFs I have tried. Cheers, simon ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* bug#43815: emacs-pdf-tools often doesn't display text 2020-10-05 16:10 ` zimoun @ 2020-10-05 17:29 ` Pierre Neidhardt 2020-10-05 20:48 ` zimoun 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Pierre Neidhardt @ 2020-10-05 17:29 UTC (permalink / raw) To: zimoun; +Cc: 43815 [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 247 bytes --] zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes: > How do you produce these private PDFs? I don't know, these are PDFs I receive over emails. I suspect they are generated by some *Office processor. -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 511 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* bug#43815: emacs-pdf-tools often doesn't display text 2020-10-05 17:29 ` Pierre Neidhardt @ 2020-10-05 20:48 ` zimoun 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: zimoun @ 2020-10-05 20:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Pierre Neidhardt; +Cc: 43815 On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 at 19:29, Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> wrote: > > How do you produce these private PDFs? > > I don't know, these are PDFs I receive over emails. > I suspect they are generated by some *Office processor. Well, what happens with other PDF readers (MuPDF, etc.)? From my experience, these kinds of PDFs are badly generated and contain unexpected content; some readers ignore it, some other ones are unhappy. For example, I remember a completely different rendering of the same PDF depending on MuPDF vs Evince vs Xpdf, and the PDF was generated by Mac tools. I am reading really large PDFs with emacs-pdf-tools (PhD thesis or scientific books) and until now I have never had an issue. And I am also reading PDFs with "complex" rendering such as scientific articles (multicolumns, figures, fonts, etc.) without any issue. Without any backtrace, warning or error message, it is hard to tell if it comes from emacs-pdf-tools and (more probably) your PDFs. :-) All the best, simon ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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