# Error viewing text reports within Gramps

**URL:** <https://gramps.discourse.group/t/error-viewing-text-reports-within-gramps/8657>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [October 11, 2025, 5:59am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/error-viewing-text-reports-within-gramps/8657 "2025-10-11T05:59:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![DaniFra](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/danifra/32/7688_2.png) [@DaniFra](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/DaniFra)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 5:59am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/error-viewing-text-reports-within-gramps/8657/1 "2025-10-11T05:59:16Z")

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Hi,

I’m using Gramps 6.0.5 (flatpak install) on Void Linux.

Runs pretty smoothly, accept when I want to make and view a text report, it gives me this error

 ![17601815215788446298433335878142](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/2X/8/834ef136439bcdbc9c23606ce0659a86e7a5ec88.png)

Within Void Linux I have Evince as default PDF/Document viewer, worked fine with Debian and Gramps 5.x so I don’t understand what the problem is here. I can / have to open the file outside of Gramps. Minor issue, I know but having the report open within Gramps is so much easier! 😉

Anybody any idea?

Thanks for any help!

grtz,  
Frank

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**Author:** ![csam](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/csam/32/5361_2.png) [@csam](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/csam)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 8:11am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/error-viewing-text-reports-within-gramps/8657/2 "2025-10-11T08:11:59Z")

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This is not a solution, but a work-around.  
Running Gramps on macOS I often see the same problem, when running a text report with output to a pdf file.  
Instead I select output to an odt file, and if I need a pdf file, open the odt file in word processor and from there export to pdf.

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**Author:** ![DaniFra](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/danifra/32/7688_2.png) [@DaniFra](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/DaniFra)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 10:24am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/error-viewing-text-reports-within-gramps/8657/3 "2025-10-11T10:24:37Z")

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Thanks for the reply @csam !  
You’re right, it’s a possible work-around But saving to pdf is not the problem. So I can open the pdf file from the dedicated folder. I’m just a bit lazy and got used to gramps opening the file right away… 🤭

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**Author:** ![DaniFra](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/danifra/32/7688_2.png) [@DaniFra](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/DaniFra)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/error-viewing-text-reports-within-gramps/8657/4 "2025-10-11T13:52:30Z")

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Problem solved! 😀

After os update I found that by now the Void repo also had Gramps 6.0.5.

So, removed the flatpak installation and installed the repo version and pdf view is available within Gramps now.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/1X/2ac1e712b7adf612e31ca08a55419f4cf37c0158.png) [@system](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/error-viewing-text-reports-within-gramps/8657/5 "2025-11-10T13:53:00Z")

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