[CALUG] Evince PDF Viewer Issue

Scott Kitterman sklist at kitterman.com
Mon Jan 28 15:05:17 EST 2013


My recommendation would be install okular and see if it works better.  It is 
far and away the best PDF reader I've ever used.

Scott K

On Monday, January 28, 2013 02:29:59 PM Ron Swift wrote:
> I am running Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit (Unity) with the default version of
> Evince pdf document reader, 3.6.0. My accounting program creates pdf
> check files that we then print on check paper.
> The pdf file appears fine when viewing in Evince but when it prints the
> $ symbol prints over the left most number (i.e. $50.00 prints as $0.00).
> I have printed to different laser printers with the same result.
> I have seen several posts on Google indicating that others are
> experiencing the same problem but no solutions have been offered.
> Before upgrading to 12.10 64 bit I used Adobe Reader on 32 bit Ubuntu
> and it worked fine. The current version of Adobe does not run on 64 bit
> Linux machines and not recommended by Ubuntu.
> Any ideas on how to fix Evince would be appreciated.
> Thanks



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