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Poppler is an open-source PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base.

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wrong letter positioning and font in PDF form

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 and filling out the SS-5 Social Security Administration form. However, some of the letters are wrongly positioned. Evince 3.28.2-1: Okular 1.3.3 (Ubuntu version 4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1): xpdf 3.04-7: mudpdf 1.12.0: The built-in…
Nathaniel M. Beaver
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How to install the latest version of poppler?

I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and it does not have the latest version of poppler. This is blocking me from opening important documents that are password protected. I need the latest version to do my day-to-day stuff. Please explain in easy terms as I'm a…
Phil
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How to upgrade poppler-utils to latest version?

My system has poppler-utils v0.24.5. From the official site I found that the latest version is 0.40.0. I tried to update it using following command sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade poppler-utils but it doesn't upgrade and show following…
Amit Patel
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How to install poppler >= 0.73 on ubuntu 20.04 (any change since 18.04?)

I have seen the first answer to How to install poppler 0.73 on ubuntu 18.04 which basically consists of the following steps: Compile and install Poppler 0.73 with checkinstall to the /usr/local: sudo apt-get install libopenjp2-7-dev…
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How can I merge PDF files without duplicating fonts?

I need to merge about a 100 PDF files into one where each file uses more or less the same unsubsetted fonts. All the options I have tried so far (pdfunite, gs, etc.) are not intelligent about font duplication and the merged PDF ends up with a 100…
user2771609
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Installing poppler-0.62.0 on ubuntu 16.04

Not able to build the poppler 0.62.0, getting following error Source Code: https://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.62.0.tar.xz -- Package Qt5Core or Qt5Gui or Qt5Xml or Qt5Widgets or Qt5Test not found -- Checking for module…
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Incorrect font spacing to fill PDF form

I am filling out this PDF form, IRS Form 1040, in evince 3.36.7 on Ubuntu 20.04 and having a problem that the numbers I input are not aligned correctly with the background bars. Please see this screenshot: In the box filled by 123456789, the…
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Can't install Inkscape on Ubuntu 19.04

I'm trying to install InkScape on Ubuntu 19.04 from Discover (KDE plasma store), but it shows error: Dependencies resolution failed I tried installing it from PPA sudo add-apt-repository ppa:inkscape.dev/stable sudo apt install inkscape -y but it…
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Evince highlights wrong regions in PDF

This is an old bug, it seems to be not Evince's own fault but the bug is from Poppler. The specific cause of the bug has been identified (it's the calculation of some coordinates) but as of 2019 it is still not fixed in Ubuntu. This is an example: …
Yan King Yin
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How to install poppler 0.73 on ubuntu 18.04

I am running 18.04 and trying to use version 2.1 of the R package pdftools. Some functionality requires poppler >= 0.73. (A poppler version requirement is documented in ?pdftools::pdf_data.) I obtained poppler-0.73.0.tar.xz and…
Robert McDonald
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How to exclude mask images while extracting images from PDF?

I have been using pdfimages to extract images from PDFs. It extracts all of following types of images image - an opaque image mask - a monochrome mask image smask - a soft-mask image stencil - a monochrome mask image used for painting a color or…
Amit Patel
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Polish characters in a pdf file not rendered correcly in evince

I've received a pdf invoice document containing Polish characters and I cannot render it properly using evince. The problem is related to the font settings. pdffonts show me this: $ pdffonts test.pdf name type …
Nykakin
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Having problem to install latest version of poppler tarball

I am currently using Kubuntu 22.04. I want to install poppler which I need for using the yazi CLI file manager, but I have a problem working with tarball files and getting a build from them, I downloaded the poppler-24.06.1.tar.xz file and…
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Unable to complete pdftools installation Ubuntu 18.04 for R supporting readtext

I read the post How install poppler and was hopeful regarding my own difficulty, but no dice. I am running R under Anaconda on a Ubuntu 18.04 Precision laptop. I wanted to install readtext (R package) to support some corpora linguistics study and…
Dalton Bentley
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Can't build docker image after upgrade

After a recent upgrade (including Ubuntu proposed repo) this command started failing: docker -D build . It failed at random lines in my Dockerfile on things like setting an environment variable: failed to export image: failed to set…
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