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On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Sindi wrote:

> Use pdftoppm (which may not handle pdf 1.5) and view with zgz (one page at

Hmmm. Looks like I may have been laboring under a fundamental 
misconception, then. Your efforts at pdf rendering were not geared toward 
reading files created under the newer pdf spec after all. Rather, the 
attempt was to find a leaner, less bloated pdf reader, right?

> Xvesa won't work with the latest precompiled xpdf.  If you insist on not 
> using svgalib, pdftoppm then xli.  Use Abiword fonts links to gs fonts 
> directory.

Maybe I'll test that out. It would require the xpdf files you compiled and 
have available at your site, correct? If I do test it, it will be on a 
confirmed v. 1.5 or 1.6 pdf file--just to see if the program can handle 
that. I'm not absolutely opposed to trying out svgalib/vgalib, btw. Just 
seems like the more complex solution at the moment since I'm not sure yet 
whether I'll be needing to use the 2.4.x kernel (possibility to get USB 
functionality).

> Since the precompiled version  already works with BL2 and upgraded glibc, 
> a libc5 version would make more sense for BL3 (smaller than uclibc).
> I am not set up to compile for BL3 libc, only uclibc (which often produces 
> unusable results, such as for nano static).

Just out of curiosity, what would it take to set up BL3 for compiling? 
Steven? If I were to want to try my hand at this, would it be better to 
just do a fullish Slack4 installation for my libc5 compiling environment 
rather than trying to adapt BL3 to this purpose? I would probably use qemu 
were I to set up such an environment. Feedback on this question will be 
appreciated.

Thanks,
James