On 25/10/18 11:08, Mark Rogers wrote:
On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 at 09:42, Bev Nicolson lumos@gmx.co.uk wrote:
Now, I have googled and I understand Evince/Document Viewer crashing is not news. But how come it only does this with one document for me? Opens it, loads, crashes.
As a general rule you *might* find some clues if you run it from the command line.
Ie, from a terminal window: evince "path/to/pdf/file"
Most applications write quite a lot of information to the terminal when running (it's just that when you run them from the graphical interface it's hidden from view). You might get lucky by spotting an obvious error, maybe a font it couldn't open or a library it couldn't access. (Don't get your hopes up that you'll definitely get an answer, but a good detective will take all the clues they can get!)
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Well I've just tried that and 'this file does not exist' is a fairly big clue, I think. Evince clearly couldn't 'see' it. I'd best save that command if there's a next time.
Bev