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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 17 May 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > The older gs will work on all ps files
>
> I've been using ImageMagic to view ps files from pdftops.

I installed it once.  It had a lot of dependencies.

> > The fonts.alias in BL3 /misc fonts directory lists about a page of:
> > -schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal
> > -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal
> > -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal ....
> > -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-...
> > Was this added so that some program (Abiword?) would work properly
>
> icewm needs some of those.  AbiWord has its own fonts.
>
> > and if so could a few more similar lines be added
>
> Yes.
>
> > to make xpdf work correctly with the existing fonts?
>
> Perhaps.  I don't know how xpdf uses fonts.
I know even less about it.  ;=(

> > BL3 has no .pcf.gz fonts, just /100dpi/c0632bt_.pfb, an
> > Adobe Bitstream font.  What is this used for in BL3?
>
> That's a scalable font.  It's used by MagicPoint.
>
> > I just copied over all the /75dpi fonts from BL2 and
> > pdftoppm still complains of no display fonts.
>
> Are you sure that pdftoppm uses X fonts?

No, but it works in BL2 where I have installed xfnts.tgz and not in BL3, 
and xfnts.tgz contains helvetica, courier, times, and symbol.  And you 
said it would work if I installed xfnts.tgz.  I can try to find more info 
at the foolabs site.

Have you got Slackware 4.0 xpdf working in BL3?

> Cheers,
> Steven
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