[BL] Xpdf Pdftopbm (was: Xvesa Xli Images)

3aoo-cvfd at dea.spamcon.org 3aoo-cvfd at dea.spamcon.org
Sat Jan 6 13:43:09 EST 2007


Lee Forrest wrote:
>
> > On my fastest computer I have source code for two kernels,
> > uclibc, busybox source code, and some collections of music
> > (midi files, sheet music) and lots of photos. So about 1GB or
> > even more.
> 
> A thousand megabytes is not tiny.

I'm going to defend Sindi here (not something I normally have
to do).  Kernel sources are huge (particularly 2.4 and above).
Obviously you will need a thousand megabytes or more for a
proper development platform.

That does not obviate the fact that Sindi does run a minimal 
Linux for her day-to-day (non-developmental) activities.

> > I did NOT add gs, just a set of 12 basic fonts from gs (I
> > could possibly have gotten them from some place else instead
> > but I had gs) which is needed by the pdftopbm convertor
> 
> So pdftopbm needs gs. That's not tiny.

Again I defend Sindi.  She said that she does not use gs.
Yes, pdftopbm needs fonts.  Yes, the place she happened to 
get those fonts was from a gs package.  But that does not 
mean pdftopbm needs gs.

I would be grateful if Lee and Sindi would stop this thread 
(or at least take it off list).  It is doing none of us any 
good.

Cheers,
Steven
  



More information about the BasLinux mailing list