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30.0.50; Can't read some PDF files any more

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Message #70 received at 60308 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: bugs <at> gnu.support, 60308 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net,
 yantar92 <at> posteo.net, manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr
Subject: Re: bug#60308: 30.0.50; Can't read some PDF files any more
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 20:35:54 +0200

> Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 18:25:58 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
> cc: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 
>     60308 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, yantar92 <at> posteo.net, bugs <at> gnu.support
> 
> 
> >
> > Here a first patch that prevent producing SVG when mutool has a version > 1.20.  Feel free to comment and fix.
> >
> 
> I just tried, and most PDF files are processed without problems with 
> mutool 1.21.

That's not what Stephen says, he tried 1.21.1.

> So I'm not sure we should install such a workaround in Emacs, for a
> bug that happens in some cases for some specific versions (1.20 and
> 1.21) of a specific external program.
> 
> Those who have these versions of that program can (temporarily) add
> 
> (setq doc-view-mupdf-use-svg nil)
> 
> to their init file, or toggle that value to open problematic files.

We can, of course, have an entry in etc/PROBLEMS, if that's the best
we can do.  But I wonder why you see something different from what
others see.

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