[okular] [Bug 444297] Okular "Could not open" a certain PDF, with no other details

[Wolfgang Faust]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444297

--- Comment #2 from Wolfgang Faust <wolfgangmcq+acct-bugs.kde.org at gmail.com> ---
Yes, I understand that there’s not much you can do about fixing the PDF problem
without a copy of the file (unfortunately it’s got a bunch of personal
information in it).

I filed this bug with the intent that it was more about the general
un-informativeness of the error message. You say “The pdf is broken as far as
we understand it“, but even that extremely broad explanation is not obvious
from the error message; in fact my first thought when I saw the dialog box was
that my flash drive had come unmounted, or possibly some strange permission
problem.

Ideally this dialog would have a way of giving more technical details about
what went wrong (“missing header section Foo” or whatever); but barring that it
would at least be useful to know that the problem occurred while trying to
understand the PDF rather than being an I/O error or whatever. Maybe change it
to something like “Invalid or corrupt PDF found while reading {file}.”?

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