From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 28 08:25:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED5F416A4CF for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:25:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from alef.poprostu.pl (alef.poprostu.pl [195.116.86.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C730D43FAF for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:25:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from piero@poprostu.pl) Received: from beth.poprostu.pl (beth.poprostu.pl [213.25.228.183]) by alef.poprostu.pl (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with SMTP id h9SGk46V039043 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:46:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from piero@poprostu.pl) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 16:21:28 +0100 From: Piero To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20031028162128.2035af91.piero@poprostu.pl> Organization: Poprostu X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: gpdf vs acrobat for linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 16:25:30 -0000 Hi, This is a description of a problem I found using gpdf to read some online howto. I found that out trying to view this document on an old laptop that I use at work. As it has a small disk the Linux base port is not installed. But the PDF file I was trying to read (see source below) has all the source quotes with monotype font unreadable. When I fit the page in the window, those text pieces turn out as horizontal lines, when I magnify the page all I can get is blank space. At home I got Adobes Acrobat for Linux port installed and I can see those source quotes. They look weird, rough etc. but I can see them. What came to my mind is also, I got some font problem, but I don't seem to suffer from it in any other application. I wrote to the author of the howto, and he says I should try xpdf. Well, AFAIR gpdf is a port of xpdf into Gnome widget set. Just compiled and what I see, is even better picture than from Acrobat. The text lines are in place. I made shots with Acrobat, xpdf and gpdf windows side by side to compare the effects. Screenshots: http://www.smyrak.com/~smyru/screenshots/gpdf/ PDF file: http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/Exim-SpamAndVirusScanning.pdf Ports installed: http://www.smyrak.com/~smyru/screenshots/ports.txt -- Piero piero@poprostu.pl