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Re: [Tools-discuss] RFC PDF crashes viewer

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 30 June 2020 20:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] RFC PDF crashes viewer
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On 2020-06-30, at 22:19, John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
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> One last observation, the open source xpdf viewer from Glyph and Cog, which was forked into the widely used poppler library, seems to handle our PDFs without trouble.
> 
> http://www.glyphandcog.com/opensource.html

Good to know.

(Background for my initial observation: When you give an assignment to students and their favorite PDF viewer crashes on the required reading material, they’ll simply say they can’t do the assignment instead of trying out other readers.)

Grüße, Carsten

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