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xApe

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« on: June 14, 2006, 11:46:14 am »
Hello,

I have some ebooks in PDF format which to not display properly (e.g., text does not show) under XPDF.  On another hand, pictures which are embedded in those pages display OK.

Am I missing some fonts or is that some other issue?  I would appreciate any suggestions how I could fix this problem.

BTW, the same PDF files display perfectly on a desktop, under Acrobat.

Thanks
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« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2006, 11:28:54 pm »
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Am I missing some fonts or is that some other issue?  I would appreciate any suggestions how I could fix this problem.
If you haven't already done so, start xpdf from the command line, that way you can see any errors that occur. NB even for PDFs that display OK, you will get some error messages about missing fonts (YMMV).

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« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2006, 02:26:25 pm »
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Am I missing some fonts or is that some other issue?  I would appreciate any suggestions how I could fix this problem.
If you haven't already done so, start xpdf from the command line, that way you can see any errors that occur. NB even for PDFs that display OK, you will get some error messages about missing fonts (YMMV).

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Thank you for your replay desertrat:

I started xpdf from the terminal like you recommended, and this is what I got:

Error: No display font for ‘Courier’
Error: No display font for ‘Courier-Bold’
Error: No display font for ‘Courier-Boldoblique’
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Warning: Cannot convert string “-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal—12-*-*-*-*-*-iso88591” to type FontStruct
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I have checked the xpdfrc file in /etc and for the Courier font, for example, there was the following entry:

displayFontT1 Courier   /usr/share/fontfiles/n0220031.pfb
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I did verify that the font file actually exits in that location, e.g. /usr/share/fontfiles/


I am not sure what next steps I could take to resolve the problem with displaying text.  I would appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks
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« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2006, 10:53:15 am »
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I am not sure what next steps I could take to resolve the problem with displaying text.  I would appreciate any suggestions.
Sorry, but I really have no idea what the problem could be. Only thing I could suggest is ask the Xpdf mailing list/author(s).

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« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2006, 11:51:28 am »
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I am not sure what next steps I could take to resolve the problem with displaying text.  I would appreciate any suggestions.
Sorry, but I really have no idea what the problem could be. Only thing I could suggest is ask the Xpdf mailing list/author(s).

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Thank you desertrat for your help.  I will follow your advice and if I manage to resolve the problem, I will post the solution in  the forum.

Thanks again.

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« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2006, 03:44:23 am »
Xpdf run until yesterday.
Now I have misteriosly the same problem...
Try to find solution...
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« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2006, 12:20:23 pm »
re-installation of xpdf ipk maybe worthy of doing so....  
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« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2006, 12:30:29 pm »
Reinstall ipk don't work.

Instead reboot, then reinstall xpdf, and also if it give some error, it works.

But I can't resolve the orrible bug of the bottom cutting of page.
Anyone can help me?
I try to istall xpdf3.0.1-2 (meanie ver), it work, but doesn't display any fonts!
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