How can I open a pdf portfolio (pdf file which contains multiple pdfs) that was made with Adobe on Mac or PC?
I've tried FoxIt, Evince, and qpdfview but none of them work.
I get a message saying "For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in Acrobat X or Adobe Reader X, or later." Unfortunately this is not possible since Adobe does not seem to support these on Ubuntu any more.
My solution is based on this answer which suggests a few different PDF applications:
I found that not all these programs actually work for this. In my case pdftk did not work and okular did. One down side with Okular is that you have to export the PDFs contained in a portfolio into individual files:
ctrl+a to select all
It's not as good an experience as using Adobe but it gets the job done.
Try evince, the GNOME document viewer
Hit F9 to make the sidebar on the left visible, then at the top of the Sidebar there is the "Thumbnails" menu. Click it.
Then you'll see this:
Then you can change to "Attachments".
This will make the Embedded PDFs visible (see below). You can click on any red PDF icons in the sidebar individually. It will open in a new pdf Window. You can also multi-select (click topmost icon, hold shift, click lowermost icon) the icons and then save them all at once, into individual files.
Although Adobe has discontinued support for Adobe Reader, you can still download a version 9.5.5 from their website, and install it manually:
wget http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb
sudo dpkg -i AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb
You should be able to view PDF Portfolio files with this version.
Type "about:plugins" in the Chrome address bar, and then Disable 'PDF Viewer'. You will then be able to open PDF Portfolio documents as well. Check it out.
