I just had extreme pain with this.

Apart from broken PDF tools, GIMP 2.99.x is already really nice. I recommend the Flatpak from flathub-beta.

The 2 big browsers dont seem to support arithmetic coded JPEG at least in PDF!

They will simply display blank pages!

Example PDF

Lets do a list

Tools that are broken

Linux

  • Firefox / Librewolf (RPM)
  • likely Chromium (see below)
  • Scrivano (Flatpak)
  • QPDF Tools (Flatpak) (and I suppose qpdf too)
  • Rescribe OCR (Flatpak)
  • JPEG2PDF (Flatpak, displays correctly but broken image pipe)
  • Arianna (Flatpak, not sure if supports PDF)
  • NightPDF (Electron/Chromium, Flatpak)

(I dont recommend that software but it works for that purpose. See my list of recommended Flatpak apps here)

Android

  • Mull (Firefox Android)
  • GrapheneOS PDF, Cuprum PDF, MJ PDF (Chromium Webview)
  • SavPDF (maybe also Webview)

Web

  • pdf24.org (webservice)
  • StirlingPDF (Docker/Podman container)

IOS

  • Safari PDF viewer (iOs 16.7.2)

Software that works

Linux, Flatpak (likely also native package)

  • KDE Okular
  • GNOME Evince (Document Viewer)
  • Inkscape
  • Libreoffice Draw
  • PDF Arranger (libqpdf 11.9.0, pikepdf 8.15.1)
  • Bookworm 1.1.2
  • KOReader
  • Sioyek
  • CorePDF
  • gImageReader

Android

  • muPDF
  • Collabora Office
  • KOReader, Librera, Orion Viewer (all dont support modern filesystem permissions)

Lets report some issues?

  • henfredemars
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    6 months ago

    Are you sure that the GIMP isn’t broken? Is it possible that the images it produces are in some cases improperly formatted?