[KDE/Mac] Macports/okular won't display PDFs?

[Jonathan Schultz]

Hi René,

I wouldn't have suspected the display drivers, but do you have any 
suggestions for how to test them? Anyway my host is Debian Linux where I 
am running Virtualbox version 5.0.16_Debian r105871

Cheers,
Jonathan

On 22/03/16 20:16, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Tuesday March 22 2016 11:29:25 Jonathan Schultz wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> All I can say is that the last time I tried this it worked (on 10.9).
> I don't have recent experience running OS X under Virtual Box but
> it's not completely impossible that you're seeing an issue related to
> one of VirtualBox's display drivers. What host are you running on?
>
> R.
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I just installed okular using Macports on a freshly installed
>> Mavericks virtual box. What I find is that it loads PDFs without
>> complaining, and even gets the number of pages correct, but fails
>> to render the pages. That is, the pages do not appear in the
>> document pane at all. At least some other document formats (well
>> jpg is all I tried) work fine. I tried running okular from the
>> command line to see if any suspicious messages appeared, but didn't
>> see any. Any suggestions where the problem might lie or how to
>> track it down?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Jonathan
>