On Sunday 19 December 2010 10:50:09 am Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:20:10 +0000, Lisi wrote: > > On Sunday 19 December 2010 16:37:01 Camaleón wrote: > >> I am getting a "floating point exception" error message from Evince > >> when opening some PDF files (a sample is linked bellow). The file gets > >> opened but as soon as I'm reading pages (page 1, page 2, page 3...), at > >> some point Evince closes by itself. When running Evince from command > >> line, as soon as it breaks, I can see the above mentioned error. > > (...) > > >> Can someone please confirm this problem? > > > > I have tried both Evince and the GIMP. > > > > Evince was fine started from the GUI. When started from the CLI it was > > fine at first, but around the 6th page I looked at it crashed thus: > > > > l...@tux:~$ evince KXTG7531-MUL.PDF > > Floating point exception > > l...@tux:~$ > > Yep, thanks for confirming, Lisi! :-) > > > The GIMP failed, but with a different error message from that you got, > > which was the same both when started from the GUI and when started from > > the CLI. A box came up saying: > > > > GIMP Message > > Opening 'home/lisi/KXTG7531-MUL.PDF' failed: Portable Document Format > > plug-In could not open image. > > Hum... you should get the same message than me. Try with this: > > *** > gimp /home/lisi/KXTG7531-MUL.PDF > *** > > Close the popup window of Gimp and review the error you get in console. > > Not sure what to do about this... Lenny only gets updates for security > issues and this looks like a plain and harmless (though annoying) error, > what do you people think, should I open a bug report for this? :-? > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón
Squeeze (evince) handles pdf's much better than Lenny, one of the big reasons I upgraded to Squeeze. The poppler 'stuff' has been getting improvements, good reason to upgrade for me -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201012191803.32395.gomadtr...@gci.net
