cannot open pdf Error message "Failed to read the document catalog"

[Sophie G]

PDF document doesn't open in document viewer, gives error message "Failed to read the document catalog"

When I try "Open With" open office word processor, it just opens a fresh document (untitled).

Sender suggests I download a new version of Adobe

Thanks,

Sophie

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Feb 9 09:19:02 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: evince 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

Correcting package to evince

[Loraine A. Baird (quicheloraine)]

I have been having the same problem in Lucid for a week now, whether using Evince or Adobe, but previously downloaded .pdfs I had on a backup disk open fine. After downloading several .pdfs from Google Books and Internet Archive with the same "File is damaged" error in both Evince and Adobe it is obviously not an error in the .pdfs themselves. Would greatly appreciate a solution. Thank you!

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Example document is corrupt as per Evince, Adobe Reader, Firefox built-in PDF reader, etc. -> Invalid