Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 15:37:38 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Paulius Bulotas <paulius@devnull.lt> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: native xpdf vs static xpdf for linux (couldn't create a font for...) Message-ID: <20040612033738.GA39342@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20040611200846.GA17678@devnull.lt> References: <20040611200846.GA17678@devnull.lt>
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On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:08:46PM +0300, Paulius Bulotas wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to use native xpdf (compiled from ports) for viewing pdf > files, but it's almost impossible,, since for many pdf's it can't find > used fonts and of course doesn't show any text. > The question would be, why? ;) > BTW, statically linked xpdf for linux which I downloaded from foolabs.com > (ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-3.00-linux.tar.gz) shows everything. You need to install ghostscript fonts for it to display properly. Easiest way to do this is to install print/ghostscript. I've asked the xpdf maintainer to put in a note about this, but it's been ignored... Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When all else fails, RTFM
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