On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 12:01 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

| From: Aruna Hewapathirane via talk <talk@gtalug.org>

| Why not simply rename the file to something.pdf ?

This file's name was given by a formal process. The file is one of
hundreds that must survive decades. One doesn't willy-nilly rename things
without inviting chaos.

If you have access to this formal process is it not possible to substitute the : which

is causing all the unexpected behaviour with another character ?

A tool should behave in the expected way.
In this case, I have had to modify my expectation (and respect for)
evince.

But is this not the exact reason why we continue to advocate for and use open source ? If this

was a Windows executable with closed source there is very little one can do. But in this

case if evince ( or any other tool..) does not behave as expected or does not do what we

want it to ? Or does not have the functionality we require then what is preventing us from

downloading the evince source code and making the necessary changes we want ?

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