From: Willie WY Wong <wongwwy@member.ams.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf - missing fonts
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 09:49:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120105084921.GA2064@Gee-Mi-Ni.epfl.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F0459A6.6000302@binarywings.net>
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 02:52:38PM +0100, Penguin Lover Florian Philipp squawked:
> Am 04.01.2012 11:52, schrieb Willie WY Wong:
> > Xpdf is looking for fonts in places that are strange:
> >
> >
> > open("/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022004l.pfb", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> > open("/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022004l.pfb", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> > open("/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n022004l.pfb", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> > open("/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n022004l.pfb", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> > open("/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n022004l.pfb", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> > write(2, "Error: ", 7Error: ) = 7
> > write(2, "No display font for 'Courier-Bol"..., 34No display font for 'Courier-Bold') = 34
> >
> >
> > whereas the above font is actually in
> >
> > /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/
> >
> > (I've been sort of just ignoring this warning, since no pdfs I've used
> > have had problem displaying, despite those errors.)
>
> Not sure what causes these errors or if they are related to the current
> issue at all. However, I guess the reason why it doesn't prevent most
> PDFs from working is that since PDF-1.5, all fonts have to be included
> in the PDF itself. Previously, some standard fonts could be assumed to
> be present on the PC.
>
> By the way: Does the issue happen with other readers as well?
I have not tested many readers. But gv and epdfview (which are both
installed on my system) do not have this problem.
W
--
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire
et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-05 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-03 22:15 [gentoo-user] xpdf - missing fonts Joseph
2012-01-03 23:20 ` Florian Philipp
2012-01-03 23:42 ` Joseph
2012-01-04 10:52 ` Willie WY Wong
2012-01-04 13:52 ` Florian Philipp
2012-01-04 15:51 ` Joseph
2012-01-05 8:59 ` Willie WY Wong
2012-01-05 17:36 ` Joseph
2012-01-06 8:57 ` Willie WY Wong
2012-01-06 15:52 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-01-06 16:48 ` Joseph
2012-01-06 21:51 ` walt
2012-01-07 3:40 ` Joseph
2012-01-09 0:31 ` Walter Dnes
2012-01-09 17:50 ` Joseph
2012-01-09 22:23 ` walt
2012-01-09 22:39 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-09 22:48 ` Walter Dnes
2012-01-06 16:50 ` Joseph
2012-01-05 8:49 ` Willie WY Wong [this message]
2012-01-05 17:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Joseph
2012-01-06 9:05 ` Willie WY Wong
2012-01-06 16:44 ` Joseph
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