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How can I open a pdf portfolio (pdf file which contains multiple pdfs) that was made with Adobe on Mac or PC?

I've tried FoxIt, Evince, and qpdfview but none of them work.

I get a message saying "For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in Acrobat X or Adobe Reader X, or later." Unfortunately this is not possible since Adobe does not seem to support these on Ubuntu any more.

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  • It's difficult to assess the available options without access to a similar file. If you could provide a link to a PDF Portfolio it might result in further attention to the question.
    – Elder Geek
    Jun 7, 2016 at 17:30

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My solution is based on this answer which suggests a few different PDF applications:

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I found that not all these programs actually work for this. In my case pdftk did not work and okular did. One down side with Okular is that you have to export the PDFs contained in a portfolio into individual files:

  1. Open with Okular

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  1. Click first item then ctrl+a to select all

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  1. You'll be prompted to select a file name and location. You can just keep hitting enter.

It's not as good an experience as using Adobe but it gets the job done.

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    For me pdftk and pdfdetach worked, while evince and okular failed on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
    – TimeVariant
    Jun 2, 2016 at 16:35
  • Evince with version 3.18.2 is reported to work, available in Xenial.
    – nealmcb
    Jul 11, 2017 at 2:04
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Try evince, the GNOME document viewer

Hit F9 to make the sidebar on the left visible, then at the top of the Sidebar there is the "Thumbnails" menu. Click it.

Then you'll see this:

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  • I guess, by default "Thumbnails" is selected.

Menu Then you can change to "Attachments".

This will make the Embedded PDFs visible (see below). You can click on any red PDF icons in the sidebar individually. It will open in a new pdf Window. You can also multi-select (click topmost icon, hold shift, click lowermost icon) the icons and then save them all at once, into individual files.

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Although Adobe has discontinued support for Adobe Reader, you can still download a version 9.5.5 from their website, and install it manually:

wget http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb
sudo dpkg -i AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb

You should be able to view PDF Portfolio files with this version.

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  • capital P causes wget to fail
    – Philip Kirkbride
    Jun 2, 2016 at 8:10
  • Followed this and got an error during install. Now I have Adobe installed but it crashes every time I open it. Ubuntu 16.04 - 64 bit.
    – Philip Kirkbride
    Jun 2, 2016 at 8:14
  • @PK-Killer You don't need the P option, I will remove it from my answer.
    – Jos
    Jun 2, 2016 at 8:19
  • it works if you change it to a small p
    – Philip Kirkbride
    Jun 2, 2016 at 8:26
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Type "about:plugins" in the Chrome address bar, and then Disable 'PDF Viewer'. You will then be able to open PDF Portfolio documents as well. Check it out.

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  • Well, what operating system are you using, and what app? They would also work if you re-enable Chrome's special security features around risky pdfs, and download the file for local viewing.
    – nealmcb
    Jul 11, 2017 at 2:06

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