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Title: Greek/mathmatical Fonts?
Post by: cybernetseraph on January 31, 2005, 01:34:14 pm

as a univeristy student i looked foward to being able to use my sl-c3000 to view pdfs of coursenotes, saving me some paperwieght


however i have the annoying thing that a lot of mathematical operatiors (integral sign, most greek, etc) show up as ? on qpdf. I have tried installing unicode fonts, but to no avail.

I bought my uni from www.shirtpocket.co.uk if that is any use


Can anyone help me?


thanks

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Title: Greek/mathmatical Fonts?
Post by: jfv on January 31, 2005, 01:36:08 pm

try using qpdf2

Felipe

Title: Greek/mathmatical Fonts?
Post by: cybernetseraph on January 31, 2005, 01:56:31 pm

Quote

try using qpdf2

Felipe
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Title: Greek/mathmatical Fonts?
Post by: Optogeek on January 31, 2005, 03:10:56 pm

Try switching on the option to use embedded fonts.  This usually works for me.

Title: Greek/mathmatical Fonts?
Post by: cybernetseraph on January 31, 2005, 03:43:09 pm

That also doesn't seem to work

for one thing, with embedded fonts turned on, theta and the infinity sign (as a  subscript) do not display in qpdf2

is it only me having this problem?
i intend to install debian on my 3000 as soon as my tests are over this week,

if i'm doing this is it owrth bothering fixing this, i intend to use it for PIM, but also as a mini laptop (my main pc is a slackware laptop)


cheers -0-

Title: Greek/mathmatical Fonts?
Post by: Optogeek on January 31, 2005, 03:56:55 pm

I am using the version of qpdf2 from the cacko feed (http://www.cacko.biz/cacko/feed) it also installs libtt as a dependance.

I don't have any problems but then again most of the pdfs are of papers etc that I have written and converted myself using acrobat in windows, which I think embeds the fonts required for the math in the papers.